Amr ibn Umayya
عمرو بن أمية
An emigrant of Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza who died in the land of Abyssinia; not to be confused with Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri, whom the Prophet sent to the Negus.
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
- Review
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In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Refugees, migrants and diaspora
Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
An emigrant of Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza who perished in the land of Abyssinia; not Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri whom the Prophet sent to the Negus. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names him in "the rest of the Abyssinian emigrants" of Banu Asad, saying he perished in the land of Abyssinia. 1 He names him again among "those of them who perished" in the land of Abyssinia. 2 He is other than Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri, the Prophet's envoy to the Negus in the same chapter. 3
Tribe
He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza 1
Source notes and markers of doubt
- Name overlap with Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri: the first is an Asadi who perished in Abyssinia, the second a Damri whom the Prophet sent to the Negus; the two biographies are not merged.
Connections
- Member of
- Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza
- Died in
- Aksum
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
People and things also explored
Al-Aswad ibn Nawfal· Yazid ibn Zam'a· The second migration to Abyssinia· Abdullah ibn al-Harith the Poet· Abdullah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi· Abdullah ibn Sufyan al-Makhzumi· Abu al-Rum ibn Umayr· Abu Hatib ibn Amr
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/7
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/10
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/3
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islam.museum contributors. “Amr ibn Umayya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/amr-ibn-umayya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.