Amr bin Umayyah al-Damri was a companion of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.
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. Amr bin Umayyah al-Damri was sent to assassinate
Abu Sufyan
Sakhr ibn Harb ibn Umayya ibn Abd Shams ( ar, صخر بن حرب بن أمية بن عبد شمس, Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya ibn ʿAbd Shams; ), better known by his '' kunya'' Abu Sufyan ( ar, أبو سفيان, Abū Sufyān), was a prominent ...
.
[Mubarakpuri]
The Sealed Nectar
p. 211.
Military campaigns
He participated in
The Mission of Amr bin Umayyah al-Damri in the year 627.
Amr bin Umayyah al-Damri was sent to assassinate
Abu Sufyan
Sakhr ibn Harb ibn Umayya ibn Abd Shams ( ar, صخر بن حرب بن أمية بن عبد شمس, Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya ibn ʿAbd Shams; ), better known by his '' kunya'' Abu Sufyan ( ar, أبو سفيان, Abū Sufyān), was a prominent ...
to avenge
Khubyab bin Adi. According to the Muslim scholar
, the Quraysh ordered Khubyab bin Adi to be crucified by
Uqba bin al-Harith during the
Expedition of Al Raji
The Expedition of al Raji, occurred directly after the Battle of Uhud in the year AH 4 of the Islamic calendar.
Background
Immediately after the Uhud battle, a group of men from Adal and al-Qarah came to Muhammad; requested him to send with the ...
because he had killed Uqba bin al-Harith's father. Three polytheists were killed by Muslims
and one was captured.
He was also one sent to investigate the events of the
Expedition of Bir Maona
The Expedition of Bir Maona (also spelt Ma'una), according to Islamic tradition, took place four months after the Battle of Uhud in the year A.H. 4 of the Islamic calendar.
It is believed the Islamic prophet Muhammad sent missionaries to pre ...
. When the news of this
massacre
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...
reached Muhammad, he was greatly grieved and sent Amr bin Umayyah al-Damri and an Ansar to investigate the whole matter.
[Mubarakpuri]
The sealed nectar: biography of the Noble Prophet
pp. 352. On his way back to Qarqara, Amr bin Umayyah rested in the shade of a tree, and there two men of
Banu Kilab
The Banu Kilab ( ar, بنو كِلاب, Banū Kilāb) was an Arab tribe in the western Najd (central Arabia) where they controlled the horse-breeding pastures of Dariyya from the mid-6th century until at least the mid-9th century. The tribe was div ...
joined him. When they slept, Amr killed them both, thinking that by doing that he would avenge some of his killed companions.
Then he found out that they had been given a
pledge of protection by Muhammad. He told Muhammad what he had done. Then Muhammad said to ‘Amr, that he (Muhammad) must pay a debt for the killing of those he pledged protection to (the
Dhimmi's)
Envoy
He was sent as an envoy to the king of
Abyssinia
The Ethiopian Empire (), also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or just simply known as Ethiopia (; Amharic and Tigrinya: ኢትዮጵያ , , Oromo: Itoophiyaa, Somali: Itoobiya, Afar: ''Itiyoophiyaa''), was an empire that historica ...
(now
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
) called
Aṣḥama ibn Abjar to invite him to Islam.
[Safiur-Rahman Mubarakpuri]
The Sealed Nectar
p. 221.
See also
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List of battles of Muhammad
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The list of expeditions of Muhammad includes the expeditions undertaken by the Muslim community during the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Some sources use the word ''ghazwa'' and a related plural ''maghazi'' in a narrow techn ...
References
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Companions of the Prophet