on account of his eloquence and the closeness of his accent to that of the Messenger ﷺ. (1)
As for his son:
88 – ʿAmr al-Ashdaq ibn al-ʿĀṣ al-Umawī *
He was counted among the nobles of the Umayyads.
ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān left him in charge of Damascus when he set out to seize Iraq, but ʿAmr seized the city for himself and the populace offered him their pledge of allegiance.
When Iraq had been secured for ʿAbd al-Malik and Musʿab had been killed, the caliph returned, besieged ʿAmr in Damascus, and extended to him a formally ratified amnesty; ʿAmr trusted it.
A few days later he broke his word, killed him, and his sister—who was the wife of al-Walīd—came out lamenting him, saying: (2)
O eye, pour forth your tears for ʿAmr
on the evening the Caliphate is snatched away by treachery.
(1) Reported by al-Bukhari 9/14, 19 in the section “The Merits of the Quran – Chapter: The Collection of the Quran,” through the isnad: Musa ibn Ismail – Ibrahim ibn Saad – al-Zuhri – Anas ibn Malik. Also recorded by Abu Zurah in Tarikh Dimashq 1/590 through the isnad: al-Hakam ibn Nafiʿ – Shuayb ibn Abi Hamzah – al-Zuhri – Anas.
(*) Nasab Quraysh, p. 175 ff.; Tabaqat Khalifah, nos. T 53, 2811; al-Muhabbar, pp. 104, 304, 377; al-Tarikh al-Kabir 6/338; al-Tarikh al-Saghir 1/159; al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 6/236; Tarikh al-Tabari 5/474; Muruj al-Dhahab 3/303; Ansab al-Ashraf 4/441; Jumharat Ansab al-Arab, p. 81; al-Istiyab, p. 1177; Tarikh Ibn Asakir 13/226b; al-Kamil 4/297; Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1035; Tarikh al-Islam 3/57; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 3/98b; al-Bidayah wa-l-Nihayah 8/310; al-ʿIqd al-Thamin 6/389; al-Isabah 3/175; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 8/37; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 245.
(2) Muruj al-Dhahab 6/218-219 identifies her as the sister of ʿAmr, whereas al-Baladhuri 4/449 and Ibn Asakir 13/229b trace her to Yahya ibn al-Hakam; the same view is adopted by the author of Tarikh al-Islam 3/58. Al-Baladhuri also notes a variant that she was the daughter of Bishr ibn Marwan. Al-Akhbar al-Tiwal 287 gives no lineage at all.