Amr ibn al-Aswad Abu Iyad al-Anasi

عمرو بن الأسود أبو عياض العنسي

Amr ibn al-As (may God be pleased with him)wad Abu Iyad al-Anasi, also called al-Hamdani, from Damascus, a Successor. He narrated from Amr ibn Mas'ud, Mu'adh ibn Jabal, Ubada ibn al-Samit (may God be pleased with him), Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As, Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) and Aisha; Mujahid, Khalid ibn Ma'dan and Shurayh ibn Ubayd narrated from him. 1 Ibn Hibban called him one of the worshippers and ascetics of Syria, Ibn Sa'd called him trustworthy and of few reports, and Ibn Abd al-Barr said that the scholars agree he was among the trustworthy scholars. 1 2

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Scholar
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Sunni
Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Amr ibn al-Aswad Abu Iyad al-Anasi, also called al-Hamdani, from Damascus, a Successor. 1 He narrated from Amr ibn Mas'ud, Mu'adh ibn Jabal, Ubada ibn al-Samit, Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As, Abu Hurayra and Aisha. 1 Mujahid, Khalid ibn Ma'dan and Shurayh ibn Ubayd narrated from him. 1

What the scholars said of him

Ibn Hibban called him one of the worshippers and ascetics of Syria, Ibn Sa'd called him trustworthy and of few reports, and Ibn Abd al-Barr said that the scholars agree he was among the trustworthy scholars. 1 2

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.8519
  2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.8520
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