Muhammad ibn ʿUbayd stated: Ismāʿīl narrated to us, from Mujālid, from ʿĀmir, from ʿĀʾishah, who used to say, “Had Zayd been alive, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would have appointed him as his successor.”

Muhammad ibn ʿUbayd transmitted the report through another chain, saying: Wāʾil ibn Dāwūd related to us, from al-Bahī, from ʿĀʾishah. She said, “Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ dispatched an army with Zayd ibn Ḥārithah, he placed him in command; and had Zayd lived after him, he would have been his successor.”

Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid narrated—through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buraydah, from his father—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “I entered Paradise and a young maiden met me. I asked, ‘Whose slave-girl are you?’ She replied, ‘Zayd ibn Ḥārithah’s.’ ”

Its chain of transmission is ḥasan (reliable). Al-Ruyānī recorded it in his Musnad, and Ḥammād ibn Salamah also narrated it from Abū Hārūn al-ʿAbdī, from Abū Saʿīd, as a marfūʿ report.

Ḥammād ibn Yazīd reported, on the authority of Khālid ibn Salamah al-Makhzūmī: When Zayd was martyred, the Prophet ﷺ came to his house. Zayd’s daughter broke down in tears before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he wept until his sobs could be heard. Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah asked, “Messenger of Allah, what is this?” He replied, “It is the longing of the beloved for his beloved.”

Another chain also supports this narration.

The Biography of Ibn Rawāḥah

As for ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah ibn Thaʿlabah al-Khazrajī al-Anṣārī, Abū ʿAmr—one of the twelve deputies on the Night of al-ʿAqabah—he fought at Badr and every subsequent engagement, and he was the Prophet’s ﷺ poet,