the son of al-Rāhib, an Anṣārī from the Aws clan, a Medinan jurist and ḥadith scholar, known by the kunyah Abū Sulaymān.
People used to call their grandfather Ḥanẓalah al-Ghasil (“the One Who Was Washed”) because, when he was martyred at the Battle of Uḥud, he was junub (in a state of major ritual impurity), so the angels washed him. (1)
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān personally met, among the Companions, Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī.
He narrated from: ʿIkrimah; Usayd ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd; al-Mundhir ibn Abī Usayd al-Sāʿidī; his brother al-Zubayr; ʿAbbās ibn Sahl; ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah; and others.
Those who reported from him include: Wakīʿ; Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī; Abū Nuʿaym; Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī; Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmānī; Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Masʿūdī; Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Wazīr; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāhib; Jubbārah ibn al-Mughallis; and several others.
Abū Zurʿah and al-Dāraqutnī graded him trustworthy, whereas al-Nasāʾī said, “He is not strong.” ʿUthmān al-Dārimī related from Yaḥyā that he was ṣuwailiḥ, meaning “fair.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān died in 171 AH, having lived past ninety.
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān and Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad informed us, saying: Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; Saʿīd ibn al-Bannāʾ informed us; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad informed us; Abū Ṭāhir informed us