- ʿAmr ibn al-Aswad al-ʿAnsī (B, M)
He is also known as ʿUmayr ibn al-Aswad, Abū ʿIyāḍ—and some say Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—the Ḥimṣī who settled in Daryyā.
He lived through both the pre-Islamic era and Islam, and was counted among the leading Followers for his devotion and piety.
He narrated from ʿUmar, Ibn Masʿūd, Abū al-Dardāʾ, ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, the martyr Umm Ḥarām bint Milḥān, al-ʿIrbāḍ ibn Sāriyah, and others.
Transmitters from him include Mujāhid, Khālid ibn Maʿdān, Abū Rāshid al-Ḥubranī, and Yūnus ibn Sayf.
Abū Zurʿah of Damascus and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Sumayʿ said: “ʿAmr ibn al-Aswad is ʿUmayr, whose kunyah is Abū ʿIyāḍ.”
I (the author) say: His narration on jihad in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (1) is recorded under the name ʿUmayr ibn al-Aswad, while Ibn Saʿd treated the two names as separate individuals.
Baqiyyah related—from Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr—that:
ʿAmr ibn al-Aswad performed the pilgrimage. When he reached Medina, Ibn ʿUmar saw him praying and asked about him.
He was told, “He is a man from Syria called ʿAmr ibn al-Aswad.”
Ibn ʿUmar said, “I have never seen anyone whose prayer, conduct, humility, and dress more closely resembled that of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ than this man.” (2)