Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Haram al-Ansari

Abu Jabir Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Haram al-Ansari al-Salami was a leading Companion of the Banu Salama tribe of Medina and the father of the celebrated hadith narrator Jabir ibn Abdullah. He was among the seventy who represented their tribe at the Second Pledge of Aqaba (alongside al-Bara ibn Ma'rur) and fought at Badr. The night before Uhud (3 AH / 625 CE) he told his son Jabir that he sensed he would be among the first martyrs, entrusting to him the care of his sisters and the repayment of his debts; by morning he was killed — tradition names him the first martyr of Uhud (in Sahih al-Bukhari, narrated by Jabir). A well-known narration holds that after his martyrdom God addressed him directly, without intermediary, saying He would grant whatever he wished, and that the angels shaded him with their wings. He was buried together with his brother-in-law Amr ibn al-Jamuh in a single grave. It is reported that some forty-six years later, when a flood threatened the graves and they were exhumed for reburial, both bodies were found fresh and unchanged, as though they had died only the day before. His grave is in the Cemetery of Uhud.