Al-As ibn Wa'il () was the father of the a major Companion of

Muhammad Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad in Islam, According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the tawhid, monotheistic teachings of A ...

'Amr ibn al-'As Amr ibn al-As ibn Wa'il al-Sahmi (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. The son of a wealthy Qurayshite, Amr embraced Islam in and wa ...

, who conquered Egypt thrice and was involved in the Islamic conquest of the Levant, and

Hisham ibn al-A'as Hishām ibn al-ʿĀṣ (), is the son of Al-As ibn Wa'il of Banu Sahm and brother of Amr ibn al-As and one of the early companions. It is known that he embraced Islam before Hijrah as can be traced from the saying of Umar, yet his exact year of be ...

. He robbed a Yemeni of his goods in a trade. The Hilf al-Fudul was set in place at this occasion, in order to bring back justice to the Yemeni merchant and those without protection in Makkan society. He was rumored to have had a relationship with

Layla bint Harmalah Salma bint Harmalah also known as (; ) was the mother of the prominent Sahaba Amr ibn al-A'as. She lived during the 6th century and was a contemporary of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Her son ''Amr'' become Muslim in 630s. He became one of the ...

Sura A ''surah'' (; ; ) is an Arabic word meaning 'chapter' in the Quran. There are 114 ''suwar'' in the Quran, each divided into verses (). The ''suwar'' are of unequal length; the shortest ''surah'' ( al-Kawthar) has only three verses, while the ...

t al- Kawthar is the 108th surah of the

Qur'an The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ('' Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which consist of individual verses ('). Besides ...

, and the shortest. According to

Ibn Ishaq Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi (; – , known simply as Ibn Ishaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer who collected oral traditions that formed the basis of an important biography of the Islamic proph ...

, it was revealed in Makka, some time before the Isra and Miraj, when A'as ibn Wa'il as-Sahmi said of

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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*http://www.islaam.net/main/display.php?id=1126&category=13 Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Sahabah ancestors Banu Sahm 6th-century Arab people {{islam-bio-stub