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Amr ibn al-As ibn Wa'il al-Sahmi ( Arabic: عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ بْنِ وَائِل السَّهْمِي, romanized : ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil al-Sahmī; c. 573 – 664) was an Arab commander and companion of Muhammad who led the Muslim conquest of Egypt and served as its governor in 640–646 and 658–664.
ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ was the Arab conqueror of Egypt. A wealthy member of the Banū Sahm clan of the important tribe of Quraysh, ʿAmr accepted Islām in 629–630. Sent to Oman, in southeastern Arabia, by the Prophet Muḥammad, he successfully completed his first mission by converting its rulers to Islām.
Apr 5, 2024 · Amr ibn al-As, a member of the Qurayshi tribe from the Banu Sahm clan, was the companion of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). He was the son of Al-As ibn Wa'il and belonged to the Hashim clan, which descends from Sa'id ibn Sahm ibn Amr ibn Hasays ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ay ibn Ghalib.
'Amr ibn al-'As (عمرو بن العاص; c. 585 – 6 January 664) was an Arab military commander who led the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640. He was a contemporary of Prophet Muhammad who rose quickly through the Muslim hierarchy following his conversion to Islam in the year 8 AH (629).
His full name was ‘Amr ibn al ‘As ibn Wa’il al Sahmi; his kunyahs are Abu Muhammad and Abu ‘Abdullah. Ibn Ishaq [1] and Zubair ibn Bakkar [2] agreed that he became Muslim while he was with the Negus in Abyssinia, and he migrated to Madinah in Safar 8 AH.
Mosque of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, earliest Islāmic building in Egypt, erected in 641 by ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, the leader of an invading Arab army. The mosque was built in Al-Fusṭāṭ, a city that grew out of an Arab army encampment on the site of present-day Cairo.
'Amr ibn al-'As subsequently attempted to convince the native Egyptians to aid the Arabs and surrender the city, based on the kinship between Egyptians and Arabs via Hajar. When the Egyptians refused, the siege resumed until the city fell around the end of March 640.
