Al-As ibn Wa'il (Arabic: العاص بن وائل) was the father of the a major Companion of Muhammad, 'Amr ibn al-'As, who conquered Egypt thrice and was involved in the Islamic conquest of the Levant, and Hisham ibn al-A'as.
The Hilf al-Fudul was set in place at this occasion, in order to bring back justice to the Yemeni merchant and those without protection in Makkan society.
[1] He was rumored to have had a relationship with Layla bint Harmalah.
According to Ibn Ishaq, it was revealed in Makka, some time before the Isra and Miraj, when A'as ibn Wa'il as-Sahmi said of Muhammad that he was "a man who is cut off (from having a male progenitor) is of no consequence, and if he were killed, he would be forgotten.
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