Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, ʿIkrimah, and others.
He witnessed the Battle of Badr and the Pledge at al-ʿAqabah.
He was known by the kunyas Abū Muḥammad and Abū Rawāḥah, and he left no offspring. He was the maternal uncle of al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr and was counted among the scribes of the Anṣār.
The Prophet ﷺ appointed him governor of Madinah during the expedition of Badr al-Mawʿid (1), and later sent him at the head of a detachment of thirty mounted men against Usayr (2) ibn Rizām, the Jew of Khaybar, whom he killed.
Al-Wāqidī said: “The Prophet ﷺ also dispatched him to Khaybar as the khāriṣ (crop assessor) (3).”
The author says: That happened once; though, albeit remotely, it might have occurred twice.
Qutaybah said: “Ibn Rawāḥah and Abū al-Dardāʾ were maternal brothers.”
Aḥmad, in his Musnad, reports: ʿAbd al-Ṣamad related to us; ʿUmārah related to us; from Ziyād al-Namīrī; from Anas, who said:
Whenever Ibn Rawāḥah met one of his companions he would say, “Come, let us increase our faith for an hour.”
He said it one day to a man who became upset, went to the Prophet ﷺ, and complained:
“O Messenger of Allah, do you not see that Ibn Rawāḥah is turning away from your faith toward some ‘faith for an hour’?”
The Prophet replied, “May Allah have mercy on Ibn Rawāḥah; he loves the gatherings over which the angels boast.” (4)