Abū Muḥammad 'Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As (; died 684 CE) was the son of

Amr ibn al-As Amr ibn al-As ibn Wa'il al-Sahmi (664) was an Arab commander and companion of Muhammad who led the Muslim conquest of Egypt and served as its governor in 640–646 and 658–664. The son of a wealthy Qurayshite, Amr embraced Islam in and was ...

of Banu Sahm and was a companion of the

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ic prophet

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. He was the author of "''Al-Sahifah al-Sadiqah''" ("''The Truthful Script''", ), the first known

hadith Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

compilation document. The document contained about one thousand of

's narrations.

Biography

Abd Allah ibn Amr embraced Islam in the year 7 AH ( CE), a year before his father,

. Muhammad was said to have shown a preference for Abd Allah ibn 'Amr due to his knowledge. He was one of the first companions to write down the Hadith, after receiving permission from Muhammad to do so. Abd Allah witnessed some of the battles under Muhammad. He participated in the

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as he was obliged to follow his father in the ranks of

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. He led the right wing of the army, though he did not take part in the actual fighting. He was said to have regretted his participation. Abd Allah succeeded his father Amr as governor of Egypt for a few weeks in early 664 before Mu'awiya, who had become caliph in 661, appointed his own brother Utba ibn Abi Sufyan to the post.

Character

Known as one of "four Abadillah"

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, a group of companions which known for their

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expertize who shared same name which consisted of Ibn 'Amr himself, Abdullah ibn Umar, Abdullah ibn Zubayr, and Abdullah Ibn Abbas. Abu Huraira said that Abd Allah ibn 'Amr was more knowledgeable than he was.An Introduction to the Conservation of Hadith (In the Light of Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih), Dr. Hamidullah, Islamic Book Trust, His work ''Al-Sahifah al-Sadiqah'' remained in his family and was used by his grandson 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb.

Ahmad ibn Hanbal Ahmad ibn Hanbal (; (164-241 AH; 780 – 855 CE) was an Arab Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, traditionist, ascetic and eponym of the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence—one of the four major orthodox legal schools of Sunni Islam. T ...

incorporated the whole of the work of Abd Allah ibn 'Amr in his voluminous book

Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal ''Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal'' () is a collection of musnad hadith compiled by the Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. AH 241/AD 855) to whom the Hanbali fiqh (legislation) is attributed. Description Musnad Ahmad, also known as Al-Musnad , is on ...

thereby covering the missing Al-Sahifah al-Sadiqah which was written in the days of Muhammad.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn Al-As Year of birth unknown 684 deaths Umayyad governors of Egypt Sahabah hadith narrators