Amr ibn al-Jamuh

Amr ibn al-Jamuh (jim unvowelled-fatha, mim lightened) ibn Zayd ibn Haram al-Salami al-Ansari, "one of the Ansar's chiefs, martyred at Uhud" ¹. He is of Banu Salama ¹.

Ibn Ishaq relates in al-Maghazi that he was a chief among Banu Salama's chiefs and a noble of their nobles, and had set up in his house a wooden idol he venerated; when the lads of Banu Salama — his son Mu'adh and Mu'adh ibn Jabal among them — became Muslim, they would go in on his idol and throw it into one of Banu Salama's pits. Amr would find it face-down in the filth, wash and perfume it, then hang his sword on it saying: "if there is good in you, defend yourself" — so they took a dead dog, bound it round its neck and took the sword; he rose to find it so, "saw his right guidance and became Muslim" ¹. Ibn al-Kalbi said Amr ibn al-Jamuh was the last of the Ansar to become Muslim ¹.

Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad, al-Sirraj and Abu Nu'aym relate through Abu al-Zubayr from Jabir that the Prophet said to Banu Salama: "who is your chief?" They said: al-Jadd ibn Qays — though we think him a miser. He said: "and what disease is worse than miserliness? Nay, your chief is Amr ibn al-Jamuh." Jabir said: and Amr would feast for the Prophet whenever he married ¹. Ibn Hajar then gives the report's other chains through Ibn Uyayna, Abu Hurayra, Anas, al-Sha'bi and Habib ibn Abi Thabit (mursal), and verses some Ansar spoke on it ².