Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

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

(1) See al-Bayhaqi, 4/15. Al-Hakim also reports the incident in al-Mustadrak, 3/204, through Ibn Ishaq: “Yahya b. Ubad b. Abd Allah told me, from his father, from his grandfather (radiya Allahu anhu): I heard the Messenger of Allah say, when Hanzala b. Abi Amir was killed—after he had confronted Abu Sufyan b. al-Harith and Shaddad b. al-Aswad struck him down with the sword—‘Your companion is being washed by the angels.’ They asked his wife, and she replied, ‘He dashed out as soon as he heard the alarm while he was in a state of janaba (major ritual impurity).’ The Prophet then said, ‘That is why the angels are washing him.’ The isnad (chain of transmission) is good; al-Hakim judged the hadith sahih, and al-Dhahabi agreed. (Author’s note)
بنِ الرَّاهِبِ الأَنْصَارِيُّ، الأَوْسِيُّ، المَدَنِيُّ، الفَقِيْهُ، المُحَدِّثُ، أَبُو سُلَيْمَانَ. وَقِيْلَ لِجَدِّهِم: حَنْظَلَةُ الغَسِيْلُ، لأَنَّهُ لَمَّا اسْتُشْهِدَ يَوْم أُحُدٍ كَانَ جُنُباً، فَغَسَّلَتْهُ المَلاَئِكَةُ (١) . رَأَى عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ مِنَ الصَّحَابَةِ: سَهْلَ بنَ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيَّ. وَحَدَّثَ عَنْ: عِكْرِمَةَ، وَأَسِيْدِ بنِ عَلِيِّ بنِ عُبَيْدٍ، وَالمُنْذِرِ بنِ أَبِي أُسَيْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ، وَأَخِيْهِ الزُّبَيْرِ، وَعَبَّاسِ بنِ سَهْلٍ، وَعَاصِمِ بنِ عُمَرَ بنِ قَتَادَةَ، وَطَائِفَةٍ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: وَكِيْعٌ، وَأَبُو أَحْمَدَ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ، وَأَبُو نُعَيْمٍ، وَأَبُو الوَلِيْدِ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ، وَيَحْيَى بنُ عَبْدِ الحَمِيْدِ الحِمَّانِيُّ، وَأَحْمَدُ بنُ يَعْقُوْبَ المَسْعُوْدِيُّ، وَإِبْرَاهِيْمُ بنُ أَبِي الوَزِيْرِ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بنُ عَبْدِ الوَاهِبِ، وَجُبَارَةُ بنُ المُغَلِّسِ، وَعِدَّةٌ. وَثَّقَهُ: أَبُو زُرْعَةَ، وَالدَّارَقُطْنِيُّ. وَقَالَ النَّسَائِيُّ: لَيْسَ بِالقَوِيِّ. وَرَوَى: عُثْمَانُ الدَّارِمِيُّ، عَنْ يَحْيَى: صُوَيْلِحٌ. تُوُفِّيَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ: سَنَةَ إِحْدَى وَسَبْعِيْنَ وَمائَةٍ، وَقَدْ جَاوَزَ التِّسْعِيْنَ. أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الحَافِظِ بنُ بَدْرَانَ، وَيُوْسُفُ بنُ أَحْمَدَ، قَالاَ: أَنْبَأَنَا مُوْسَى بنُ عَبْدِ القَادِرِ، أَنْبَأَنَا سَعِيْدُ بنُ البَنَّاءِ، أَنْبَأَنَا عَلِيُّ بنُ أَحْمَدَ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ
(١) انظر: البيهقي: ٤ / ١٥. وأخرج الحاكم في (المستدرك) : ٣ / ٢٠٤، من طريق ابن إسحاق، حدثني يحيى بن عباد بن عبد الله، عن أبيه، عن جده ﵁ قال: سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول عند قتل حنظلة بن أبي عامر، بعد أن التقى هو وأبو سفيان بن الحارث حين علاه شداد ابن الأسود بالسيف فقتله، فقال رسول الله ﷺ: (إن صاحبكم تغسله الملائكة) ، فسألوا صاحبته، قالت: إنه خرج لما سمع الهائعة وهو جنب. فقال رسول الله ﷺ: (لذلك غسلته الملائكة) . وسنده جيد، وصححه الحاكم، وأقره الذهبي المؤلف.

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