al-Miswar ibn Makhrama

Al-Miswar ibn Makhrama ibn Nawfal al-Zuhri, kunya Abu Abd al-Rahman; his mother Atika bint Awf, sister of Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf, who became Muslim and emigrated ¹.

Yahya ibn Bukayr said he was born two years after the hijra and came to Medina in Dhu al-Hijja after the conquest, year 8 AH, a blooming lad of six ¹. Al-Baghawi said he preserved hadiths from the Prophet — his hadith from the Prophet on the betrothal of Aliya bint Abi Jahl is in the two Sahihs and elsewhere ¹.

In one of Muslim's chains it reads: "I heard the Prophet while I was a man of wet dreams" — pointing to birth before the hijra; but the scholars are unanimous he was born after it, some explaining "muhtalim" as from hilm with kasra, not hukm with damma — meaning he was discerning and retentive ¹.

Mus'ab said he kept close to Umar ibn al-Khattab; al-Zubayr said he was of the people of merit and religion. He was with his uncle Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf on the nights of the shura and preserved things from him, then was with Ibn al-Zubayr ¹.

In the first siege a mangonel stone struck him while he prayed; he lingered five days and died the day the news of Yazid ibn Mu'awiya's death came, year 64 AH, per Yahya ibn Bukayr and Abu Mushar ¹. Al-Tabari quotes Ibn Ma'in that he died in 73 AH, which Ibn Hajar rebuts as an error: the scholars agreed he died in the first siege of Ibn al-Zubayr, whereas al-Hajjaj's siege of 73 AH — al-Miswar did not live to its time ¹.