ʿUmar later appointed him governor of Ḥimṣ, and he was numbered among the ascetics.
ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Saʿīd said: His governorship of Ḥimṣ came after Ibn Ḥidhyam.
Ibn Lahīʿah narrates—through Yūnus, from al-Zuhrī—who said: When Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir died, ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd succeeded him; he and Muʿāwiyah jointly administered Syria until ʿUmar was killed.
And Ibn Shihāb said: Thereafter ʿUthmān consolidated the whole of Syria under Muʿāwiyah and removed ʿUmayr from office.
ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah relates from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd: Ibn ʿUmar said to me, “No man among the Muslim Companions was superior to your father.” (1)
Hishām ibn Ḥassān reports from Ibn Sīrīn: Out of admiration for ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd, ʿUmar used to call him “the peerless one,” and on one occasion placed him in command of an army.
Al-Mufaḍḍal al-Ghallābī said: The ascetics of the Anṣār were three—Abū al-Dardāʾ, Shaddād ibn Aws, and ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd.
Ibn ʿAsākir has recorded his life in full—may Allah have mercy on him.
13 – Abū Sufyān Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayyah al-Umawī* son of ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Quṣayy ibn