al-Baghdādī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Fatḥ, nicknamed al-Ghīj; al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Khallāl; al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Rustamī; Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Thaqafī; Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bāghbān; and many others besides.
He was exceedingly patient with students, gracious in manner, charitable, and humble. People used to call him “the father of the widows.”
His son Yaḥyā said, “His virtues are innumerable.”
He was born in 388 AH. He showed great mercy to the poor. Among his children were Muḥammad, Isḥāq, ʿAbd al-Malik, Ibrāhīm, Yaḥyā, and ʿĀʾishah, whose mother was Fāṭimah bint al-Shaybānī.
I heard my father, Abū ʿAmr, say: “My own father would sometimes let me sleep beside him on the bed. He was dark-complexioned, whereas I was fair, and he would joke with me and embrace me.”
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said, “I found the people of Isfahan unanimously praising Abū ʿAmr and commending him. Our shaykh, Ismāʿīl the ḥāfiẓ, reported from him in abundance, spoke highly of him, and regarded him as superior to his brother ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.”
Al-Muʾtaman al-Sājī said, “I have not seen a shaykh more constant or more reliable in ḥadith than ʿAbd al-Wahhāb. I read to him until his soul departed, and I was stricken by his loss.”
Yaḥyā said, “My father died on the nineteenth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah in 475 AH.”
Sulaymān ibn Qudāmah and Fāṭimah bint Sulaymān informed us, from Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm. Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad the muʾadhdhin informed us—in the year 556 AH— that ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq informed us, saying: My father informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr narrated to us; Azhar narrated to us, from Ibn ʿAwn