Abd al-Rahman ibn Aqil ibn Abi Talib

Abd al-Rahman was a son of Aqil ibn Abi Talib, the elder brother of Ali ibn Abi Talib, and therefore belonged to the Aqili branch of Banu Hashim. Nasab Quraysh places him among Aqil's sons, states that his mother was an unnamed umm walad and records his martyrdom at al-Taff.

His marriage connected two branches of the house of Abu Talib. Mus'ab al-Zubayri records that Khadija bint Ali ibn Abi Talib was married to Abd al-Rahman and bore him Sa'id; the continuation of the passage also records Aqil. This confirms the existing protected spouse relationship to Khadija bint Ali and supports the public statement that the couple had at least the two named sons, without assigning further children from later unsourced lists.

The secure public event in Abd al-Rahman's life is his presence with Imam Husayn at Karbala. Nasab Quraysh calls him one of Aqil's sons martyred at al-Taff, and Maqatil al-Talibiyyin includes him among the Talibid martyrs with Husayn. This evidence establishes his participation and martyrdom on 10 Muharram 61 AH, corresponding to 680 CE, while the sources do not preserve a complete account of his earlier life.

Later battle narratives attribute to him a rajaz in which he identifies himself through his father Aqil, the Hashimite family and his loyalty to Husayn. Ibn Shahrashub further reports that he killed 17 horsemen before his martyrdom. These details belong to later martyrdom and manaqib transmission: the poem may be retained as an attributed battlefield report, but the numerical claim should not be treated as independently verified fact.

Maqatil al-Talibiyyin names Uthman ibn Khalid al-Juhani and Bashir ibn Hawt al-Qabidi as participants in the event of his martyrdom, while manuscript notes and parallel historical transmissions preserve variant forms of the names. The safest conclusion is that early-to-classical reports associate his martyrdom with two men from the opposing army, but the exact spelling and reported role in the event of his martyrdom is not uniform across the textual tradition.

Abd al-Rahman's date and place of birth are unknown, and the inspected sources do not distinguish an individual grave for him. He is commemorated among the Hashimite martyrs of Karbala, whose burials are traditionally located near Imam Husayn's grave, but any separate modern local shrine or ziyarat point attributed to him must be described as a local attribution rather than a historically proven individual burial.