At a glance
- Roles
- Companion · Diplomat
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
- Region
- Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Place in the story
- Companion · c. 625 CE · c. 4 AH†Tradition
- OfficialtowardMuhammad · c. 628 CE · c. 7 AH†Historical
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
His mission to Mecca to kill Abu Sufyan
Ibn Hisham relates, in a passage that Ibn Ishaq did not mention among the lists of expeditions, that after the killing of Khubayb ibn Adi (may God be pleased with him) the Prophet sent him to Mecca to kill Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, together with Jabbar ibn Sakhr. He was recognised in Mecca and fled. On the way he killed a Qurayshi who had glimpsed their hiding-place in a cave, took down Khubayb's wooden post and threw it into a ravine. On his way back he killed a one-eyed old man of Banu al-Dil, a spy for Quraysh, and took another man prisoner; see the report. 1 2 3
Connections
People and things also explored
Muhammad· The Prophetic Era· Amr ibn al-As· The Incident of al-Raji'· The Treaty of Hudaybiyya· Abu Sufyan ibn Harb· Mecca· Medina
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/282
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/283
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/284
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
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islam.museum contributors. “Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/amr-ibn-umayya-al-damri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.