49 – Abān ibn Saʿīd al-Umawī *
Abu al-Walīd al-Umawī. His embrace of Islam came late. He was a prosperous merchant who journeyed to Syria, and he is the one who granted protection to his cousin ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān on the day of al-Ḥudaybiyyah, when the Prophet ﷺ sent ʿUthmān as an emissary to Mecca. Abān met him, declaring:
“Come on, step forward and fear no one—
The sons of Saʿīd are the nobles of the land.” (1)
He later accepted Islam on the Day of the Conquest—indeed, even before the Conquest—and emigrated. This came about when his two brothers, Khalid (mentioned above) and ʿAmr, having returned to Medina from the Abyssinian migration, wrote to him inviting him to Allah, and he hastened to Medina as a Muslim.
In the ninth year the Messenger of Allah ﷺ appointed him governor over Bahrain.
He and his brother Khalid were martyred on the day of Ajnādayn, according to the sound report.
Abān was also a maternal cousin of Abū Jahl.
Their other brother is:
50 – ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ al-Umawī **
He performed two migrations: first to Abyssinia and then to Medina, and he has a narration in the Musnad of the Imām