The genealogy of this noble person is as follows: Abdullah b. Amīr b. Kurayb b. Rabīʿa b. Ḥabīb b. ʿAbd al-Shams b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Quṣayy al-Qurashī al-Abshamī. He was the cousin of ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him). The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was alive when he was born. When Abdullah was a baby, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) spat into his mouth, and Abdullah began to swallow the saliva of the Messenger of God. The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This is the instrument of water." For this reason, wherever Abdullah placed his hand, water would gush forth. He was an honorable, praiseworthy, and upright man of character. ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him) appointed him as governor of Basra after Abū Mūsā. After ʿUthmān b. Abī al-ʿĀṣ, he was also appointed as governor of the province of Fars. At that time, he was twenty-five years old. He conquered the entirety of Khurāsān. He conquered the surrounding provinces of Fars: Sīstān, Kirmān, and Ghazna. During his time, he killed the king of kings, Shahanshah Yazdegerd, and then entered the state of iḥrām (ritual consecration) for the pilgrimage.
According to some reports, he entered iḥrām for the ʿumra (lesser pilgrimage). He entered iḥrām in the lands where he was present, and he did this as an act of shukr (gratitude) to Allah. This person distributed a great deal of wealth to the people of Medina. He was the first person in Basra to wear silk. The truth of the matter is best known by Allah, exalted and free from all deficiencies. Abdullah was the first to make a pool on ʿArafa and to bring sweet water there. He remained governor of Basra until the assassination of ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him). He took the wealth from the Bayt al-māl (public treasury). Ṭalḥa and Zubayr met with him. He joined them in the Battle of the Camel. Afterwards, he went to Damascus. There is no record that he participated in the Battle of Ṣiffīn. However, after Muʿāwiya made peace with Ḥasan, he appointed Abdullah as governor of Basra. Abdullah died this year on his land at ʿArafāt. He made his bequest to Abdullah b. Zubayr.
There is a ḥadīth that he transmitted. There is nothing about him in the books. Musʿab al-Zubayr narrated from Abdullah b. ʿAmr that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"Whoever is killed for his wealth is a martyr."
Muʿāwiya married Abdullah b. Amīr to his own daughter Hind. Hind was a beautiful woman. Because she loved her husband Abdullah very much, she would personally serve him. One day, Abdullah looked in the mirror and saw that his beard had turned white. When he saw his wife’s face radiant, he divorced her. He sent her back to her father Muʿāwiya, asking him to marry his daughter to a young man whose face was as radiant as a page of the Muṣḥaf. Abdullah died in the fifty-eighth year of the Hijra. There is also a narration that he died in the fifty-ninth year.