Amr ibn al-Ahwas al-Bariqi

Amr ibn al-Ahwas al-Jushami, a Companion who campaigned with the Prophet ﷺ thirteen times — the Prophet stroked his head and said "O God, make him beautiful" — whose hadith is in the four Sunan; he witnessed the Farewell Pilgrimage, settled in Basra and witnessed al-Yarmuk in Umar's time, and was among those who passed a hundred years ¹.

Ibn Hajar writes: Amr ibn al-Ahwas al-Jushami campaigned with the Prophet thirteen times, who stroked his head and said "O God, make him beautiful" ¹. He has a hadith in the four Sunan on the transmission of his son Sulayman from him, that he witnessed the Farewell Pilgrimage; he settled in Basra; his son Bashir and others transmitted from him; he witnessed al-Yarmuk in Umar's time; his hadith is in Sahih Muslim and the Sunan; and he was among those who exceeded a hundred years ¹.

Amr ibn al-Ahwas was a Companion who accompanied the Prophet on thirteen campaigns; the Prophet stroked his head and prayed for his beauty, and he lived to witness the conquest of al-Yarmuk and to be over a hundred years old.

• Al-Isaba entry no. 6394 (al-Maktaba al-Asriyya scan, pp. 1085–1086).
• The data card gives the nisba "al-Bariqi" while the Isaba text reads "al-Jushami"; Banu Jusham are of the Sarat tribes also affiliated to Bariq in the genealogies; both forms are kept here.