Ḍamrah narrated, on the authority of one of his shaykhs:
“Whenever Rawḥ ibn Zinbaʿ came out of the bathhouse, he would manumit a slave.”

Ibn Zabr says that he died in the year 84 AH.

I (the compiler) say: He is reliable; none of his narrations are found in the Six Canonical Books, and they are few in number.

92 — Ibn Umm Burthun, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ādam al-Baṣrī * (M, D)

The commander ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ādam of Basra, overseer of the public water service, is the same man known as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Umm Burthun. It is likely that he was a child born after liʿān. The Ādam mentioned here is our forefather Adam, peace be upon him. Some say his name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Burtham—or Ibn Burthun—while others maintain that he was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the freedman of Umm Burthun, and that he belonged to the foremost rank of the Successors.

He transmitted hadith from Abu Hurayrah, Jābir, and ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr. Narrations from him were taken by Abū al-ʿĀliyah al-Riyāḥī—who was of the same generation—, Qatādah, Sulaymān al-Taymī, and ʿAwf al-Aʿrābī.

Al-Madāʾinī relates that ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ziyād appointed Ibn Umm Burthun to office, but later grew angry with him and fined him one hundred thousand [dirhams]; so he set out for Yazīd and said, “I halted one stage short of Damascus …”