Amir ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas

Amir ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas al-Zuhri of Medina; a trustworthy Successor of the third layer, transmitting from his father, Uthman and Aisha, and he died in 104 AH or a year earlier ¹.

Ibn Hajar writes in al-Taqrib: Amir ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas al-Zuhri, of Medina — trustworthy, of the third layer, died in the year one hundred and four; the major collections narrate from him ¹. The Kashif al-Dhahabi material embedded in this edition adds: from his father, Uthman and Aisha, and from him his son Dawud, Ibn Shihab and a group — trustworthy; he died in 103, it is also said 104 ¹.

His father Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas was one of the Ten promised Paradise and the conqueror of Iraq, so Amir grew up in a house of learning and standing in Medina; he transmitted from the senior Companions he lived among, and his son Dawud ibn Amir, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri and a circle of his contemporaries transmitted from him ¹.

Amir ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas was the son of the great Companion Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas; he was one of Medina's men of learning, narrating hadith from his father and senior Companions, and he died about the year 104 of the Hijra.

• Taqrib al-Tahdhib, entry 3089 (Majmu'at al-kutub scan, p. 297); the following entry, "Amir ibn Sa'd al-Bajali" (3090), is a different man.
• On his death: "year one hundred and four" in the entry text; Kashif al-Dhahabi gives 103, also said 104 — the divergence is stated.
• "Of the third layer" is al-Taqrib's term for the younger Successors.