He was the mastermind of Quraysh, a man of the age, and a byword for keenness of mind, strategic acumen, and firm resolve.
He emigrated to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as a Muslim in the opening days of year eight AH, travelling alongside Khālid ibn al-Walīd and the Keeper of the Kaʿbah, ʿUthmān ibn Ṭalḥah. The Prophet ﷺ rejoiced at their arrival and acceptance of Islam, placed ʿAmr in command of a contingent of the army, and equipped him for battle.
His transmitted hadiths are not numerous—about forty when repetitions are counted. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim both relate three of them. Al-Bukhārī alone records one ḥadīth, while Muslim alone records two (1).
He also narrated from ʿĀʾishah.
Those who reported from him include: his son ʿAbd Allah; his freedman Abū Qays; Qabīṣah ibn Dhuʾayb; Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī; ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ; Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim; ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr; Jaʿfar ibn al-Muṭṭalib ibn Abī Wādiʿah; ʿAbd Allah ibn Munayn; al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (in mursal form); ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shimāsah al-Mahrī; ʿUmārah ibn Khuzaimah ibn Thābit; Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī; Abū Murrah, the freedman of ʿAqīl; Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ashʿarī; and others.