His birth took place in 374 AH, and he was knowledgeable in matters of legal stipulations. I have obtained a number of high-level isnāds from him.
128 – al-Malīḥī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Qāsim
The shaykh, reliable narrator, and chief ḥadīth authority of Herat: Abū ʿUmar ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Malīḥī al-Harawī.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū Muḥammad al-Makhladī, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Khaffāf, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Shurayḥ, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Samʿān, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Nuʿaymī, and others.
He transmitted Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī through al-Nuʿaymī.
Those who narrated from him include Muḥyī al-Sunnah Abū Muḥammad al-Baghawī, Khalaf ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-Māwardī, Ismāʿīl ibn Manṣūr the Qurʾān-reciter, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Fuḍaylī, and others.
Al-Muʾtamin al-Sājī said: “He was trustworthy and righteous; of early birth. He attended the reading of al-Bukhārī during the recitation of Abū al-Fath ibn Abī al-Fawāris.”
Al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Kutubī stated: “He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year three and sixty and four hundred, at the age of ninety-six.” ⦗1⦘