courageous and daring; the first battle he witnessed was Biʾr Maʿunah (1).

Ibn Humayd reported: Salamah related to us, Ibn Ishaq related to us, from ʿIsa ibn Maʿmar, from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlqamah ibn al-Faghwaʾ al-Khuzaʿi, from his father, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me with a sum of money to Abu Sufyan so that he might distribute it among the poor of Quraysh. They were still idolaters, and the Prophet wished to win their hearts. He said to me, “Find yourself a companion.”

I met ʿAmr ibn Umayya al-Damri, and he said, “I will go out with you.”

I mentioned this to the Prophet ﷺ, and he took me aside and said, “O ʿAlqamah, when you reach the Banu Damrah, be on your guard against your brother, for I have heard the poet say: ‘Your brother is a Bakri—do not trust him.’”

We set out, and when we reached al-Abwaʾ, in the land of Banu Damrah, ʿAmr ibn Umayya said, “I want to visit some of my people here for a need I have with them.”

I replied, “Go ahead.”

When he had gone off, I prodded my camel, remembering what the Prophet ﷺ had advised me. Suddenly—by Allah—he appeared with a group of his tribesmen, carrying bows and arrows.

When I saw them, I spurred my camel on, and when he realized that I had outdistanced the party, he caught up with me.

He said, “I went to my people; I had some business with them.”

I answered, “Indeed.”

When I reached Mecca I handed the money to Abu Sufyan, and he kept saying, “Who has ever seen anyone more loyal and more dutiful to kin than this man? We fight him and seek his blood, yet he sends us gifts!” (2)

Hatim ibn Ismaʿil reported, from Yaʿqub, from Jaʿfar ibn ʿAmr ibn Umayya, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ dispatched ʿAmr ibn Umayya to the Negus, and he found that they had a small doorway through which they would enter.