وَعَن عبدِ الرَّحمنِ بن أبي عَميرَةَ
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَا مِنْ نَفْسٍ مُسْلِمَةٍ يَقْبِضُهَا رَبُّهَا تُحِبُّ أَنْ تَرْجِعَ إِلَيْكُمْ وَأَنَّ لَهَا الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا غير الشَّهِيد» قَالَ ابْن عَمِيرَةَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَأَنْ أُقْتَلَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ يَكُونَ لِي أَهْلُ الْوَبَرِ وَالْمَدَرِ»
Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abu Amira* reported God’s Messenger as saying, “No Muslim soul which God takes wants to return to you and have the world and what it contains except the martyr.”
Ibn Abu Amira told that God’s Messenger said, “That I should be slain in God’s path is dearer to me than to possess the nomads and the townsmen.” * On p. 725 the name appears as Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abu Amra al-Ansari. Ibn Abd al-Barr, Istiab, p 395 treats the two as one man, quoting al-Walid ibn Muslim to the effect that he was Abd ar-Rahman ibn Amra or Amira al-Muzani, but in the heading of the section he gives the name as Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abu Amira.
He says he has been reputed to have been a companion of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), but that this is not correct. He was a Syrian. Nasai transmitted it.