Zuhrah, the Emigrants, and the Mothers of the Believers.

Al-Miswar said: I brought ʿĀʾishah her share, and she asked, “Who sent this?” I replied, “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.” She said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, ‘No one will continue to show you tenderness after me except those who are patient.’ May Allah give Ibn ʿAwf to drink from the salsabīl (a spring) of Paradise.”

This report was recorded by Aḥmad in his Musnad (1).

ʿAlī ibn Thābit al-Jazarī related—from al-Wāziʿ, from Abū Salamah, from ʿĀʾishah—that she said:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gathered his wives during his final illness and said, ‘It is the steadfast and truthful who will protect my honor among you (2).’ ”

Among ʿAbd al-Raḥmān’s finest deeds was withdrawing himself from the leadership when the shūrā (consultative council) convened and selecting, for the ummah, the person recommended by the ahl al-ḥill wa’l-ʿaqd—those vested with authority and decision. He carried out that duty in exemplary fashion, uniting the community behind ʿUthmān. Had he been inclined to favoritism, he could have taken the office for himself, or bestowed it on his cousin and closest companion in the council, Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ.

It is narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Niyār al-Aslamī (3), from his father, who said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf was among those who issued legal verdicts in the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar, basing them on what he had heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.