Uqba ibn Amr al-Ansari (Arabic: عقبة بن عمرو الأنصاري, romanized: ʿUqba ibn ʿAmr al-Anṣārī), also known by his kunya Abu Mas'ud (Arabic: أبو مسعود, romanized: Abū Masʿūd) al-Ansari was a companion of Muhammad.
[citation needed] Uqba belonged to Medina and was among those who were present in the Pledge of al-Aqaba and promised that they would protect Muhammad at the cost of their lives.
[1] Uthman's successor Ali (r. 656–661) appointed Uqba as the governor of Kufa.
Afterward, Uqba married his daughter Umm Bashir to Ali's son Hasan.
[1] The modern historian Wilferd Madelung suggests that Ali was hoping to strength his relations with Uqba.