Ibn Saʿd, Saʿīd ibn ʿUfair, al-Ziyādī and others state that he died in the year 85 AH. Ibn Yūnus reports—on the authority of al-Layth—that he passed away in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year 86 AH.
I (the compiler) say: the first report is the sounder. Sixteen days earlier his son Aṣbagh had died, and the grief made him ill; he died at Ḥulwān, a small town he had founded one barīd above Egypt.
His brother ʿAbd al-Malik lived on after him, and when word of his death reached him he confirmed the succession for his two sons: al-Walīd, then Sulaymān.
91 — Rawḥ ibn Zinbaʿ ibn Rawḥ ibn Salāmah, Abū Zurʿah al-Judhāmī
The commander, the nobleman, Abū Zurʿah al-Judhāmī the Palestinian, leader of his people. He served, in effect, as a vizier to the caliph ʿAbd al-Malik.
He transmitted hadith from his father—who was a Companion—and from Tamīm al-Dārī and ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit. Those who narrated from him include his son Rawḥ ibn Rawḥ, Shuraḥbīl ibn Muslim, ʿUbādah ibn Nusay, and others.
He owned a house in Damascus in the Buzuriyyīn quarter (1), and he commanded the troops of Palestine on behalf of Yazīd. On the day of Marj Rāhiṭ (2) he stood with Marwān.
Muslim erred when he claimed that Rawḥ himself was a Companion; the Companionship belongs to his father.