Al-As ibn Wa'il ( ar, العاص بن وائل) was the father of the Sahaba
'Amr ibn al-'As
( ar, عمرو بن العاص السهمي; 664) was the Arab commander who led the Muslim conquest of Egypt and served as its governor in 640–646 and 658–664. The son of a wealthy Qurayshite, Amr embraced Islam in and was assigned import ...
and
Hisham ibn al-A'as.
He was a part of
Hilf al-Fudul.
He was rumored to have had a relationship with
Layla bint Harmalah.
Surat al-
Kawthar is the 108th surah of the
Qur'an
The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , si ...
, and the shortest. According to
Ibn Ishaq
Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār ibn Khiyār (; according to some sources, ibn Khabbār, or Kūmān, or Kūtān, ar, محمد بن إسحاق بن يسار بن خيار, or simply ibn Isḥaq, , meaning "the son of Isaac"; died 767) was an 8 ...
, it was revealed in
Makka, some time before the
Isra and Miraj, when A'as ibn Wa'il as-Sahmi said of
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mon ...
that he was "a man who is cut off (from having a male progenitor) is of no consequence, and if he were killed, he would be forgotten."
He never became a Muslim and left a will to his two sons.
[see Sunan Abu Dawudbr>2877]
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References
External links
*http://www.islaam.net/main/display.php?id=1126&category=13
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Sahabah ancestors
Banu Sahm
6th-century Arabs
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