mighty that I might seek redress; but there is no god but You.
He went on repeating those words until he died (1).
They report that ʿAmr passed away on the night before Eid al-Fiṭr.
Al-Layth, al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī, al-Wāqidī and others said it was in the year 43 AH.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr and others said: the year 42 AH.
Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr said: the year 43 AH, adding that he was about one hundred years old.
Al-ʿIjlī put his age at ninety-nine.
Al-Wāqidī, on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Yaḥyā from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, related that ʿAmr died at the age of seventy, in the year 43 AH.
Another report from al-Haytham has him dying in 51 AH, but this is incorrect. Ṭalḥah al-Qannād claimed 58 AH, a view of no weight.
I say: he was roughly five years older than ʿUmar. He used to remark, “I remember the night ʿUmar was born,” and he lived twenty years after ʿUmar; that yields a total lifespan of a little over eighty years—he did not reach ninety, and Allah knows best.
He left behind abundant wealth, slaves and real estate. It is said that among his effects were seventy camels, each laden with gold (2).
His brother:
16 – Hishām ibn al-ʿĀṣ al-Sahmī
A righteous fighter, the son of Abū Jahl’s sister, who was Umm—