#1 Umar ibn al-Khattab from The History of the Khalifahs by Jalal ad- Din as-Suyuti

Umar ibn al-Khattab ibn Nufayl ibn
‘Abdu’l-‘Uzza ibn Riyah ibn Qart ibn Razah
ibn ‘Adi ibn Ka‘b ibn Lu’ayy, Amir al-
Mu’minin, Abu Hafs, al-Qurashi, al-‘Adawi, al-
Faruq.
He accepted Islam in the sixth year of
prophecy when he was twenty-seven years old,
says adh-Dhahabi.
An-Nawawi says: ‘Umar was born thirteen
years after the Elephant, he was one of the
nobility of Quraysh, and he had the role of
ambassador in the Jahiliyyah; Quraysh,
whenever war broke out among them or
between them and others, would send him as
an ambassador, i.e. a messenger, and when
someone called them to judgement – often
over a matter of standing or lineage – then
they sent him as a response to that.
He accepted Islam very early on, after forty
other men and eleven women. Some say that it
was after thirty-nine men and twenty-three
women, and some say, after forty-five men and
eleven women. But it was only after he
accepted Islam that Islam was shown openly
in Makkah and the Muslims rejoiced in him.
He said: He was one of the outstripping first
ones, one of the ten for whom it was
witnessed that they were for the Garden, one
of the khulafa’ who took the right way, one of
the in-laws of the Prophet, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, one of the great men
of knowledge of the Companions and one of
their abstinent people.
There are related from him five hundred and
thirty-nine hadith from the Prophet, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace. ‘Uthman ibn
‘Affan narrated from him, ‘Ali (ibn Abi Talib),
Talhah (ibn ‘Ubaydullah), Sa‘d (ibn Abi
Waqqas), ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn ‘Awf, Ibn
Mas‘ud, Abu Dharr, ‘Amr ibn ‘Abasah and his
son ‘Abdullah, Ibn ‘Abbas, Ibn az-Zubayr,
Anas, Abu Hurayrah, ‘Amr ibn al-‘As, Abu
Musa al-Ash‘ari, al-Bara’ ibn ‘Azib, Abu Sa‘id
al-Khudri, and a great number of the
Companions and others, may Allah be pleased
with them.
I say: I attach here some sections in which
there are some collections of interest
connected to his biography.