Ibn Abī al-Fawāris and Hibatullāh al-Lālkāʾī produced select compilations from his narrations. Among those who transmitted from him were al-Bayhaqī, al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad ibn Hibatullāh al-Lālkāʾī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Thaqafī, and a number of others. There is unanimous agreement on his reliability. He died in Ramaḍān, 415 AH, at the age of eighty.
203 – al-Wahrānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid
The shaykh, reliable, eminent: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid ibn Musāfir al-Hamadānī, al-Maghribī, al-Wahrānī, and later al-Bajjānī (1).
Bajjāna (2) is one of the towns of al-Andalus, whereas Bijāya al-Nāṣiriyya was founded in the fifth century AH in the Maghrib; it is the better known and larger city (3), yet the former produced leading figures and scholars.
He was born in 338 AH. He travelled on business as far as the remotest parts of Khurāsān and applied himself diligently to hadith transmission.