ʿAlī by ten years. Likewise, Ṭālib was ten years older than ʿAqīl, and all of them embraced Islam except Ṭālib.
ʿAqīl accepted Islam before the Treaty of al-Ḥudaybiyah, took part in the Battle of Muʾtah, and was counted among Quraysh’s foremost experts in genealogy. He inherited the property of those relatives who had emigrated, leaving their wealth and homes in Mecca, and he died during the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah.
As for ʿAmr ibn Umayyah al-Ḍamrī ⦗1⦘, he was an eminent Companion. He embraced Islam after the Battle of Uḥud, and his first campaign was that of Biʾr Maʿūnah. He was the Messenger of Allah’s ﷺ envoy to the Negus to arrange the marriage of Umm Ḥabībah and to bring back the remaining Muslims who were there. He performed many praiseworthy deeds and left fine legacies—may Allah be pleased with him. He died during the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah.
In that same year also passed away:
ʿAmr ibn Ḥamīq ibn al-Kāhin al-Khuzāʿī ⦗2⦘. He embraced Islam before the Conquest and emigrated; some, however, say he only became Muslim in the year of the Farewell Pilgrimage ⦗3⦘.
A ḥadīth relates that “the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed for him, saying: ‘May Allah preserve the vigor of your youth,’ so he lived to the age of eighty without a single white hair appearing in his beard” ⦗4⦘. Despite this, he was one of the four men who entered upon ʿUthmān, and thereafter he joined the supporters of ʿAlī, fighting alongside him at al-Jamal and Ṣiffīn.
He was also among those who rose with Ḥujr ibn ʿAdī. Ziyād sought to arrest him, so he fled to Mosul, and Muʿāwiyah dispatched
(1) Tabaqat Ibn Saad, vol. 4, p. 248; Tabaqat Khalifa (d. 182); Musnad Ahmad, vol. 4, pp. 139, 179; vol. 5, p. 287; al-Muhbir, pp. 76, 118, 119, 183; Tarikh al-Kabir al-Bukhari, vol. 6, p. 307; Thiqaat al-Ajli, p. 362; al-Maʾrifa wa al-Tarikh, vol. 1, p. 325; al-Jarh wa al-Tadil, vol. 6, p. 220; al-Mustadrak ʿala al-Sahihayn, vol. 3, p. 623; Jumharat Ansab al-Arab, p. 185; al-Istiʿab, vol. 3, p. 1162; al-Jamʿ bayna Rijal al-Sahihayn, vol. 1, p. 362; Ansab al-Samani, vol. 8, p. 159; Tarikh Ibn ʿAsakir, vol. 13, p. 198, col. b; Asad al-Ghabah, vol. 4, p. 193; Tahdhib al-Asma wa al-Lughat, vol. 1/2, p. 24; Mukhtasar Tarikh Dimashq, vol. 19, p. 178; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 1030; Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 2, p. 234; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 3, p. 94, n. a; Siyar Aʿlam al-Nubalaʾ, vol. 3, p. 179; al-Kashif, vol. 2, p. 280; al-ʿUqd al-Thamin, vol. 6, p. 365; al-Isabah, vol. 2, p. 524; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 8, p. 6; Khulasat al-Khizrji, p. 287; ʿIlam al-Saʾilin, pp. 49–50.
(2) Tabaqat Ibn Saad, vol. 6, p. 25; Musnad Ahmad, vol. 5, p. 223; Tarikh al-Bukhari al-Saghir, vol. 1, p. 105; Thiqaat al-Ajli, p. 363; al-Awaʾil of Ibn Qutaybah, p. 41; al-Maʾarif, p. 291; al-Maʾrifa wa al-Tarikh, vol. 1, p. 330; al-Jarh wa al-Tadil, vol. 6, p. 225; Mashahir ʿUlama al-Amsar (d. 379); al-Awaʾil of al-Askari, p. 65; al-Istiʿab, vol. 3, p. 1173; Asad al-Ghabah, vol. 4, p. 217; Mukhtasar Tarikh Dimashq, vol. 19, p. 201; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 1034; al-Kashif, vol. 2, p. 283; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 8, p. 23; al-Isabah, no. 5818; Hasan al-Muhadharah, vol. 1, p. 223; Khulasat al-Khizrji, p. 288.
(3) Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: “The first is more authentic.”
(4) Narrated by Ibn al-Sunni in ʿAmal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah, no. 475, and by Ibn al-Athir in Asad al-Ghabah, vol. 4, p. 217, from the hadith of ʿAmr ibn al-Hammam. In its chain appears Ishaq ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi Furwa, who is abandoned.