Everyday it is said: so and so has died.  And there must come a day when it will be said: `Umar has died.

—`Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb

Risālat al-Mustarshidīn Imam Ḥāritha al-Muḥāsibi (d. 243AH) edited and commented by Shaykh Abd al-Fattāh Abū Ghuddah