Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 27028 — Reports on kindness and keeping ties

Abu Salamah bin Abd al-Rahman said that Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) visited Abu al-Raddad when he was ill, and he said: "The best of them and the one who most maintains the ties of kinship is Abu Muhammad," meaning Ibn Awf: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'Allah said: I am Allah and I am al-Rahman, and this is al-rahim (the tie of kinship). I have derived for it a name from My own name. So whoever maintains it, I will join him, and whoever severs it, I will cut him off.'"