Uqba ibn Amir al-Juhani

Uqba ibn Amir ibn Abs al-Juhani, "the famous Companion"; he related much from the Prophet, and a group of Companions and Tabi'in related from him — Ibn Abbas, Abu Umama, Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Abu Idris al-Khawlani and a host of Egypt's people ¹.

Abu Sa'id ibn Yunus said: he was a reciter, learned in inheritance-shares and fiqh, eloquent of tongue, a poet and scribe — one of those who collected the Qur'an. His mushaf was seen in Egypt in an order other than Uthman's mushaf, at its end: "Uqba ibn Amir wrote it with his own hand" ¹.

In Sahih Muslim, by way of Qays ibn Abi Hazim, Uqba said: the Messenger of God arrived at Medina while I was shepherding sheep of mine; I left them and went to him and said: take my pledge — and he pledged me upon emigration ¹.

He witnessed the conquests and was the courier to Umar of Damascus's conquest; he witnessed Siffin with Mu'awiya, who afterwards appointed him over Egypt ¹. Abu Umar al-Kindi said: Mu'awiya combined for him Egypt's governorship of tax and prayer; when he wished to dismiss him he wrote ordering him to raid Rhodes, and once he was under way Muslama seized the governorship — it reached Uqba and he said: "expedition and dismissal both?" — that was in year 47 AH ¹.

He died in Mu'awiya's caliphate — so the sound report ². Abu Zur'a relates from Ubada ibn Nusi that he saw a man relating hadith in Abd al-Malik's caliphate said to be Uqba; Ahmad ibn Salih denied it, saying Uqba died in Mu'awiya's caliphate — so al-Waqidi and others dated it too. As for Khalifa ibn Khayyat's saying that Amir ibn Uqba ibn Amir was killed at Nahrawan with Ali — that is another man; Khalifa also said Uqba ibn Amir died in 58 AH ².