members of his household, who maintained that he passed away in the year 64 AH.
Narrations from him appear in all six canonical collections.
The Musnad of Baqīʿ contains fifty of his reports, counting the repeated chains.
90 – ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī, resident of Egypt (ع)
The eminent imam and Qur’an-reciter, Abū ʿAbs—though some called him Abū Ḥammād, others Abū ʿAmr, Abū ʿĀmir, or Abū al-Asad—an Egyptian Companion of the Prophet ﷺ.
Among those who transmitted from him are: Abū’l-Khayr Marthad al-Yazanī, Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī, ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ, Abū ʿImrān Aslam al-Tujībī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shumāsah, Mishraḥ ibn Hāʿān, Abū ʿUshshānah Ḥayy ibn Yuʾmin, Abū Qabīl al-Maʿāfirī, Saʿīd al-Maqburī, Baʿjah al-Juhanī, and many others.
He was learned, an accomplished reciter, eloquent, a jurist, a specialist in the laws of inheritance, a poet, and a figure of great standing.
He served as the courier who brought ʿUmar the news of the conquest of Damascus, and he owned a house in the Bāb Tūmā quarter. ⦗1⦘
ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ relates that ʿUqbah said:
“I left Syria on a Friday and reached Madinah on the following Friday. ʿUmar asked me, ‘Did you take off your leather socks?’ I said, ‘No.’”