Hafs ibn Ghayāth related—on the authority of Ibn Isḥāq—who said:
“ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Aswad arrived among us on pilgrimage. One of his legs became afflicted, so he stood on the other and kept praying until daybreak.”

Hilāl ibn Khabbāb said: “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Aswad, ʿUqbah, the client of Adīm, and Saʿd Abū Hishām would enter iḥrām (the state of pilgrim consecration) from Kūfah. Throughout the journey they would alternate—fasting one day and breaking the fast the next—until they returned.”

Al-Ḥakam reported that when ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Aswad was on his death-bed he wept. Someone asked why, and he replied, “Out of sorrow for the prayer and the fast.” He kept reciting the Qurʾān until he passed away.

Al-Shaʿbī remarked, “This is a household created for Paradise: ʿAlqamah, al-Aswad, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.”

It is also reported that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān fasted so much that the fasting burned his tongue.

Khalīfah said, “He died in the year 98 or 99 AH.”

Ibn ʿAsākir records that he was among those who visited ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

9 – ʿIkrimah, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī, their client * (Kh, 4; M, corroborated)
The eminent scholar, ḥāfiẓ, and Qurʾānic exegete—Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī, their client—originally Berber, and resident of Madinah.