Himyar bin Abdul-Kilal reported,
Umar bin Khattab 
set out for Sham after his earlier journey there, and when he drew near it, news reached him and those with him that the plague was spreading throughout the region. His companions said to him, "Turn back and do not plunge into it. Had you been there when it broke out, we would not have advised you to leave, but as it is, do not enter."So he turned back toward Madinah. He stopped to rest that night, and I was the person nearest to him. When he set off again, I followed close behind him, and I heard him saying to himself, "They turned me back from Sham after I had nearly reached it, because the plague is there. Yet my turning away from it will not delay my appointed time, nor would going forward into it have hastened my death. Once I reach Madinah and finish certain matters that I must attend to, I shall travel until I enter Sham and settle in Hims, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'Allah will raise from it on the Day of Resurrection seventy thousand who will face neither reckoning nor punishment. Their place of resurrection will be between the olive trees and its walled garden, in the red soft earth of that land.'"
Ahmad 120
Daifحدثنا أبو اليمان الحكم بن نافع حدثنا أبو بكر بن عبد الله عن راشد بن سعد
عن حمرة بن عبد كلال قال
سار عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه إلى الشام بعد مسيره الأول كان إليها حتى إذا شارفها بلغه ومن معه أن الطاعون فاش فيها فقال له أصحابه ارجع ولا تقحم عليه فلو نزلتها وهو بها لم نر لك الشخوص عنها فانصرف راجعا إلى المدينة فعرس من ليلته تلك وأنا أقرب القوم منه فلما انبعث انبعثت معه في أثره فسمعته يقول ردوني عن الشام بعد أن شارفت عليه لأن الطاعون فيه ألا وما منصرفي عنه مؤخر في أجلي وما كان قدوميه معجلي عن أجلي ألا ولو قد قدمت المدينة ففرغت من حاجات لا بد لي منها لقد سرت حتى أدخل الشام ثم أنزل حمص فإني سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول ليبعثن الله منها يوم القيامة سبعين ألفا لا حساب عليهم ولا عذاب عليهم مبعثهم فيما بين الزيتون وحائطها في البرث الأحمر منها
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Its isnad is daif due to the weakness of Abu Bakr bin Abdullah bin Abu Maryam. Hamza is with damma on the ha and with the plain ra, and the Hafiz mentioned in Tajil (103) that Ibn Hibban listed him among the trustworthy narrators under those named Hamza with fatha on the first letter and with a zay, so it became distorted, and the careful scholars vocalized it with damma on the first letter and with the plain ra. Abu Zura Dimashqi mentioned him in the generation following the Companions, and said, "He accompanied Umar." He also has an entry among the mukhadramin in Isabah (2:65), where it is quoted from Ibn Yunus that he said, "He witnessed the conquest of Egypt." He also has an entry in Lisan Mizan (2:359–360), where reference is made to this hadith by another route, after which it is said, "Abu Yaman narrated it from Abu Bakr, and his hadith does not contain 'I heard Umar,' rather he said, 'from Umar.'" This is a clear error on the part of the Hafiz. Perhaps he did not see the hadith in the Musnad, for here it is explicit that he heard it directly from Umar, but the defect is the weakness of Abu Bakr bin Abu Maryam. See Majma al-Zawaid (10:61).Al-Barth, with fatha on the ba and sukun on the ra, means soft ground. Ibn Athir said, "By it he means a piece of land near Hims, where a group of martyrs and righteous people were killed."