Noble Traits & Honours

In another account it is mentioned that Hazrat Abdur Rahman (ra) bin Auf would offer lengthy prayers (voluntary prayers), before the Zuhr prayers and when he would hear the call to prayer, he would immediately make his way for the congregational prayer.

(Roshan Sitarey az Ghulam Bari Saif Sahib, Vol. 2, p. 107)

Another narrator says that he witnessed Hazrat Abdur Rahman (ra) bin Auf performing circuits around the Ka‘bah whilst supplicating to God to save him from the miserliness of the self.

(Roshan Sitarey az Ghulam Bari Saif Sahib, Vol. 2, p. 110)

Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar (ra) relates, “The year Hazrat Umar (ra) was elected Khalifa, he appointed Hazrat Abdur Rahman (ra) bin Auf as the Amir for the Hajj.”

(Tarikh al-Tabari, Vol. 2, pp. 379-380, Dhikr Ibtidaa amr al-Qadisiyyah, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1987)