He died a little while before Anas.
Both Muslim and al-Nasāʾī narrated his reports.
106 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām al-Makhzūmī * (Kh, 4)
He is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām ibn al-Mughīrah ibn ʿAbd Allah, Abū Muḥammad, one of the nobles of Banū Makhzūm.
His father was among the ṭulaqāʾ (those whom the Prophet set free on the day of the Conquest), and he embraced Islam commendably.
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān himself is not counted among the Companions in the unrestricted sense; he only saw the Prophet, and that constitutes a restricted form of Companionship.
He transmitted hadith from his father, from ʿUmar, ʿUthmān, ʿAlī, the Mother of the Believers Ḥafṣah, and others.
Those who narrated from him include his son, the distinguished scholar Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—one of the Seven Jurists of Medina—together with al-Shaʿbī, Abū Qilābah, Hishām ibn ʿAmr al-Fazārī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥāṭib, and many others.
ʿĀʾishah once sent him to Muʿāwiyah to address him about Ḥujr ibn al-Adbar, but he arrived to find that Muʿāwiyah had already executed him and the matter had gone too far.
Ibn Saʿd (1) reports that ʿĀʾishah used to say, “If only I had stayed back from my march…"