To what extent is the circulating story true that Omar ibn al-Khattab used to call his wife "O daughter of the most noble ones," and that he would check on the affairs of his subjects at night, and found a man and his wife in a tent, with his wife suffering from childbirth, so Omar and his wife Umm Kulthum bint Ali ibn Abi Talib went to help them, and Umm Kulthum delivered the baby while Omar prepared food, only for the man to discover that he was the Commander of the Faithful and his wife was Umm Kulthum?
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This story is not authentic because there is no continuous, sound, or even weak chain of transmission () for it. It was mentioned by Ibn al-Jawzi, Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari, Ibn Muflih al-Hanbali, and Ibn Kathir as suspended or without a chain of transmission. All these chains of transmission are broken, so the story is not established.
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