Jabbār ibn Sulmā of the Banū Kilāb was the man who speared him, and when he struck the blow ʿĀmir exclaimed, “By the Lord of the Kaʿbah, I have triumphed!” ʿĀmir was then borne aloft until he passed out of sight; ʿĀmir ibn al-Ṭufayl said, “He was lifted so high that I saw the sky beneath him.” ʿAmr ibn Umayyah was asked about him and replied, “He was one of our finest men and among the earliest supporters of our Prophet ﷺ.”

Jabbār relates: “I asked al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Sufyān about ʿĀmir’s words—what did he mean by them? He answered, ‘He meant Paradise.’ Al-Ḍaḥḥāk then invited me to Islam, and I embraced the faith because of what I had witnessed at the killing of ʿĀmir ibn Fuhayrah. Al-Ḍaḥḥāk wrote to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ informing him of my conversion and of what had happened to ʿĀmir. The Prophet ﷺ said, ‘The angels have buried him and lodged him in ʿIlliyyīn.’”

Both al-Bukhārī and Muslim record from Anas that he said, “We used to recite concerning them a Qur’anic verse: ‘Convey to our people on our behalf that we have met our Lord, and He is pleased with us and has made us pleased.’” This report has already been quoted in full under the account of the expedition of Biʾr Maʿūnah.

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq reports, on the authority of Hishām ibn ʿUrwah from his father, that ʿĀmir ibn al-Ṭufayl would say, “Which one of you was the man whom, when he was killed, I saw raised between heaven and earth until the sky lay beneath him?” They answered, “ʿĀmir ibn Fuhayrah.”

Al-Wāqidī relates, through Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah, al-Zuhrī, ʿUrwah, and ʿĀʾishah, that “ʿĀmir ibn Fuhayrah was taken up to heaven and his body was never found; people believe the angels buried him.”

Among the Prophet’s scribes was also ʿAbd Allah ibn Arqam ibn Abī al-Arqam al-Makhzūmī—may Allah be pleased with him—who embraced Islam in the Year of the Conquest and wrote for the Prophet ﷺ. Imām Mālik said, “Whatever he wrote, the Prophet ﷺ would adopt, thank him for, and commend as excellent.” Salamah narrates, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār, from Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr, from ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ employed ʿAbd Allah ibn Arqam ibn ʿAbd Yaghūth as his scribe, and he would respond to rulers on the Prophet’s behalf. Such was his trustworthiness that the Prophet ﷺ would dictate a letter to a king, ʿAbd Allah would write it and read it back, and the Prophet would seal it—so complete was his confidence in him.

ʿAbd Allah later served as scribe to Abū Bakr, who put him in charge of the public treasury. ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb confirmed him in both roles, but when ʿUthmān became caliph he relieved him of them. I say: that was only after ʿAbd Allah ibn Arqam himself asked to be excused. It is also reported that ʿUthmān offered him three hundred thousand dirhams in compensation for his service, but he refused, saying, “I worked only for Allah; my reward is with Allah, Glorified and Exalted.”