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 ʿUthmân to keep ʿAmr until he was through with the fight against the Greeks, because he had special knowledge of warfare and inspired awe in the enemy. ʿUthmân did so; and ʿAmr defeated the Greeks. ʿUthmân then wanted ʿAmr to be in charge of the army, and ʿAbdallâh in charge of the kharâj; but ʿAmr refused, saying, "My case is that of one who holds the horns of the cow while the chief milks it." ʿUthmân then appointed ibn-Saʿd to the governorship of Egypt.

. For seven years after the conquest of Egypt, the Abyssinians of al-Bîma kept up their resistance, and could not be subjugated because of the water with which they flooded their thickets.

. ʿAbdallâh ibn-Wahb from Mûsa ibn-ʿAli's father:—ʿAmr conquered Alexandria for the second time by capitulation, which conquest took place in the caliphate of ʿUthmân after the death of ʿUmar.