Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh

A Qurayshī who accepted Islam, emigrated, and served as one of the scribes of revelation, before apostatizing and returning to Mecca, where he slandered the Prophet ﷺ by claiming he had altered the wording of the Qurʾān as he wrote it (a charge orientalists still repeat). Named for execution at the Conquest, he was hidden by his foster-brother ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, who after some days brought him before the Prophet ﷺ to seek pardon. The Prophet ﷺ held a long silence, hoping a Companion would act on the standing order, then accepted his Islam; afterward he explained that it did not befit a prophet to kill by a signal of the eye. His Islam became excellent; ʿUmar later made him a governor of Egypt, and he died a righteous death.