Thawr ibn Yazīd reported that Thawbān passed away in Ḥimṣ in the year 54 AH.
6 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Kurayz ibn Rabīʿah ibn Ḥabīb al-ʿAbshamī*, son of ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Quṣayy—the governor, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī, al-ʿAbshamī, the man who conquered the province of Khurāsān.
He saw the Prophet ﷺ and related from him the ḥadīth: “Whoever is killed defending his property.”(1)
Hanzalah ibn Qays transmitted this report from him.
He was the maternal cousin of ʿUthmān, and his father ʿĀmir was the son of the Messenger of Allah’s ﷺ paternal aunt al-Bayḍāʾ bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib.
He governed Basra on behalf of ʿUthmān, then went to Muʿāwiyah, who married him to his daughter Hind. His residence in Damascus was in the district of al-Ḥuwayrah; it is the same house later owned by Ibn al-Ḥarastānī.
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said, “ʿUthmān appointed Ibn ʿĀmir over Basra and dismissed Abā …”
= Al-Bazzar; also transmitted from Abu Umamah by al-Tirmidhi, no. 2437, which he graded hasan, and declared sahih by Ibn Hibban, no. 2642; likewise transmitted from Utbah b. Abd al-Sulami by Ibn Hibban, no. 2643.
(*) Ibn Saad, Tabaqat, 5/44; Nasab Quraysh, pp. 147–148; al-Muhabbar (see index); al-Maʿarif, p. 320; Futuh al-Buldan, p. 396; al-Tabari, Tarikh, 5/170; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, 3/639; Jamharat Ansab al-Arab, p. 75; al-Istiʿab, p. 931; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh, 9/229 b; Usd al-Ghabah, 3/191; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 3/206; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 2/266; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, 1/64; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidayah wa-l-nihayah, 8/88; al-ʿAqd al-Thamin, 5/185; al-Isabah, no. 6181; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 5/272; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 1/36 and 65.
(1) Reported by al-Hakim, 3/639, through Musab b. Abd Allah — his father — his grandfather Musab b. Thabit b. Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr — Hanzalah b. Qays — Abd Allah b. Amir, as a prophetic statement: “Whoever is killed while defending his wealth is a martyr.” The chain is weak because Musab’s father and grandfather are unreliable, yet the report is supported by other lines of transmission: from Abd Allah b. Amr in Ahmad, al-Bukhari, and Muslim; from Saʿid b. Zayd in al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Hibban; and from Buraidah in al-Nasaʾi.