Who is the Companion whom the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) hoped would be a successor to Hamza?
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The one to whom the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, "I hope that he will be a successor to Hamza," was his cousin, Abu Sufyan ibn Al-Harith ibn Abd Al-Muttalib. He embraced Islam in the eighth year before the Conquest and died in the twentieth year in Medina.
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