ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿd b. Abī Sarḥ al-ʿĀmirī, Abū Yaḥyā (d. 35 or 36/656), Companion of the Prophet, governor of Egypt, a commander in the army of the caliph ʿUthmān and the conqueror of Ifrīqiya. He belonged to the ʿĀmir b. Luʾayy, a clan of the Quraysh, from which his nisba al-ʿĀmirī derives (Ibn Saʿd, 7/496; al-Balādhurī, Ansāb, 11/19; see also Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, 3/918). ʿAbd Allāh embraced Islam and joined the Prophet in Medina before the conquest of Mecca (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, 3/918). He was the first individual from the Quraysh to be appointed by the Pr…