Cairo
Amr ibn al-As accepted Islam shortly before the conquest of Makkah and became one of the great commanders of the early Muslims. He led the conquest of Egypt,…
Amr ibn al-As accepted Islam shortly before the conquest of Makkah and became one of the great commanders of the early Muslims. He led the conquest of Egypt, founded the city of Fustat with its mosque, the first in Egypt, and governed the country twice. He passed away in Egypt in 43 AH, on the night of Eid al-Fitr, and asked to be buried beside the old Hajj road at the foot of the Muqattam so that pilgrims setting out for the Hijaz would pray for him. His tomb lies inside the mosque of Uqba ibn Amir in the Qarafa al-Sughra, on the right as you enter by the main gate and directly beside the grave of Uqba, where the third-century jurist Harmala al-Tujibi recorded it. The graves of Dhul-Nun al-Misri and Rabia al-Adawiyya are a few steps away, and his son Abdullah is buried in the mosque of Amr in Old Cairo.