Amir ibn Fuhayra RA or also known as Abu Fuhayra RA(عامربنفهيرة) (586-625) was a companion of Rasulullah s.a.w He was also known by the kunya Abu 'Amr.
Abu Fuhayra RA are of African ancestry, he was born a slave in the possession of the Azd tribe. Later Abu Fuhayra RA was owned by Al-Tufayl ibn Al-Harith, the stepson of Saidina Abu Bakr RA, who was also a member of this tribe but probably younger than Amir.
Abu Fuhayra RA became a Muslim in Makkah before 614.From the year 614 he was tortured in Makkah in an attempt to force him to recant his faith.His persecutor is not directly named; but the persecution stopped when Saidina Abu Bakr RA bought him from Al-Tufayl and manumitted him. As was usual for freed slaves, Abu Fuhayra RA remained in Abu Bakr's service and had the special care of grazing his milking ewe....... http://sohabih.blogspot.com/2017/08/abu-fuhayra-ra.html
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