Had I not been sent to you, ‘Umar would have been sent
Had I not been sent to you, ‘Umar would have been sent
لو لم أبعث فيكم لبعث عمر
Had I not been sent to you, ‘Umar would have been sent.
This narration is mawdu’. Ibn al Jawzi lists it among the fabrications.[1]
Abu Qatadah al Harrani is the problem as affirmed in Mizan al I’tidal[2].
There is also an ambiguous narrator from ‘Uqbah.
[1] Al Mawdu’at vol. 1 pg. 321.
[2] Mizan al I’tidal vol. 4 pg. 221.