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Uqbah ibn Amir

عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ

ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir

Biography

ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī was a Companion of the Prophet () who later became a governor of Egypt under Muʿāwiyah. He is the narrator, preserved in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, of the Prophet's () final public khuṭbah, delivered in the last week of his life, in which the Prophet () made a special duʿāʾ for the martyrs of Uḥud, eight years after the battle, as though bidding them farewell. ʿUqbah records this as the last time he ever saw the Prophet's () face in that setting.

Significance

Preserved the hadith of the Prophet's (ﷺ) last public khuṭbah, delivered in his final illness, in which he prayed for the martyrs of Uḥud eight years after the battle and warned the Ummah about competing over the world rather than fear of shirk

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