Musa.

Abu Musa then said, “A young man from Quraysh has come to you—noble through his mothers, his paternal aunts, and his maternal aunts—scattering wealth among you like this and like that.

He is the one who summoned Talhah and al-Zubayr to Basra, saying, ‘I have longstanding favors there.’

He is also the one who opened Khurasan; the Chosroes was killed during his governorship. Out of gratitude to Allah he entered the state of ihram at Nishapur, provided water-skins for the pilgrims at ʿArafah, and was open-handed and generous (1).

Ibn Saʿd (2) said, “His father ʿĀmir embraced Islam on the Day of the Conquest, lived on into the time of ʿUthmān, and left many descendants in Basra and Syria.

He visited his son ʿAbd Allah while the latter was governor of Basra.

It is also said that ʿAbd Allah was born after the Hijrah, and that when the Messenger of Allah came for the compensatory ʿumrah, Ibn ʿĀmir—then three years old—was carried to him and the Prophet rubbed chewed dates on his palate. When ʿAbd Allah reached thirteen years of age, his son ʿAbd al-Raḥmān was born.

Ibn Mandah, however, stated that the Prophet ﷺ passed away when Ibn ʿĀmir was thirteen years old.”

Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī said, “It is said that whenever he worked a tract of land, water would spring forth in it” (3).

al-Aṣmaʿī related: “On the Day of Eid al-Aḍḥā in Basra he was struck dumb for a moment, then declared,

‘By Allah, I will not combine upon you both incapacity and stinginess. Whoever takes a sheep from the marketplace—its price is on me.’” (4)

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