He caught the blood in his hand, wiped it across his face, then collapsed between the two battle-lines, repeatedly calling out, “O assembly of Muslims, defend your brother’s flesh!” They would charge forward until they had moved beyond him, and they kept doing so until he died where he lay.

Ibn Wahb reported: Usāmah ibn Zayd al-Laythī told me, quoting Nāfiʿ: Ibn Rawāḥah had a wife of whom he stood in awe, and he also owned a slave-girl with whom he once had intercourse. His wife, alarmed at what she suspected he had done, confronted him, and he exclaimed, “Subḥān Allāh!” She replied, “Then recite something to me, for you are in a state of major ritual impurity.” So he recited:

I testify, by Allah’s leave, that Muḥammad
is the Messenger of the One who is above the heavens, sublime;
and that Zechariah, father of John, and John as well—
each has a deed that is accepted by his Lord.

These lines are also transmitted as having been composed by Ḥassān.

Ibn Wahb likewise narrated—from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Salmān, from Ibn al-Hād—that the wife of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah once caught him with a slave-girl of his, and he denied it. She said, “Then recite to me,” whereupon he said:

I bear witness that Allah’s promise is true,
and that the Fire is the abode of the unbelievers;
that the Throne floated upon the water,
and above the canopy is the Lord of all beings;
it is borne aloft by noble angels—
angels who are brought near to the Lord.

She responded, “I believe in Allah and reject what my eyes perceived.” Ibn Rawāḥah later told the Prophet ﷺ about this episode, and he laughed.

Mūsā ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Kathīr said: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Mājishūn narrated to us—from a reliable source—that the wife of Ibn Rawāḥah had suspected him, and he related the same story.

Ibn Isḥāq said: Ibn Rawāḥah left no descendants.