the brother of Saʿīd ibn Ḥuraith.
ʿAmr was one of the last surviving Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ who had settled in Kūfah. He was born shortly before the Hijrah. He enjoyed both the honor of Companionship and of transmitting hadith. He also narrated from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq and Ibn Masʿūd.
Among those who reported from him were his son Jaʿfar, al-Ḥasan al-ʿUrani, al-Mughīrah ibn Subayʿ, al-Walīd ibn Sarīʿ, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, and others. The last person to see him in the flesh was Khalaf ibn Khalīfah. He died in 85 AH.
Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī informed us; Jaʿfar al-Hamdānī informed us; al-Silafī informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭuraythīthī informed us; al-Musayyab ibn Manṣūr al-Dīnawarī at Āmul informed us; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad informed us; Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Khālid al-Naysābūrī reported to us; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us, saying: Wakīʿ narrated to us; Sharīk narrated to us from Abū Isḥāq, who said:
“I heard ʿAmr ibn Ḥuraith say, ‘I was in my mother’s womb on the day of Badr.’”⦗1⦘
Fitr ibn Khalīfah likewise related—from his father—that his patron ʿAmr ibn Ḥuraith said: