Hammād ibn Zayd said: Thābit narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā,
that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was preaching. He heard the Prophet say, “Sit down,” so he sat right where he was, outside the mosque, and remained there until the sermon was over. When this was reported to the Prophet, he said, “May Allah increase you in eagerness to obey Allah and His Messenger.” (1)
Part of this report is also transmitted by ʿUrwah from ʿĀʾishah. (2)
Hammād ibn Salamah said: Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī informed us
that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah once lost consciousness. The Prophet ﷺ came to him and supplicated, “O Allah, if his appointed term has come, then make it easy for him; otherwise, grant him healing.” He immediately felt relief and said, “Messenger of Allah! My mother kept crying out, wā jabalah, wā ẓahrāh (‘Oh, my calamity! Oh, the loss of my support!’). And I saw an angel raising an iron mace, saying, ‘You are such-and-such;’ had I said ‘Yes,’ he would have struck me with it.” (3)
Abū al-Dardāʾ said, “We used to be with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on a journey on the day …”
(1) Its chain of transmission is sound, yet the report is mursal (a Companion is omitted). Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar, in al-Isaba 6/78, notes that al-Bayhaqi recorded it with an authentic isnad through Thabit, from Ibn Abi Layla …; he also produced it through another route that ends with Hisham b. Urwa, from his father, from Aishah. The mursal version has the stronger chain. The author of al-Kanz (no. 37173) ascribes the report to Ibn Asakir.
(2) Cited by Ibn Hajar in al-Isaba 6/78. Al-Haythami, in Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid 9/316, says that al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat, but the chain contains Ibrahim b. Ismail b. Mujammaʿ, who is weak.
(3) Ibn Saʿd reproduced the full report (3/2/82) on the authority of the Successor Abu Imran al-Juni, making it mursal. The wording “my mother” is a mistake. The correct version—established in Sahih al-Bukhari (no. 4267, Book of Expeditions, Chapter: The Campaign of Muʾta)—comes through Imran b. Maysara, from Muhammad b. Fudayl, from Husayn, from ʿAmir, from al-Nuʿman b. Bashir: Abdullah b. Rawaha lost consciousness, and his sister ʿAmrah lamented, “O my brother…,” listing his qualities. When he revived he said, “Nothing you mentioned but that it was said to me: ‘Are you truly so?’” Thus, the mourner was his sister ʿAmrah, not his mother. ʿAmrah was the mother of the narrator al-Nuʿman b. Bashir. See also Sunan al-Bayhaqi 4/64.