ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Fārisī, known as al-Fāmī, a native of Shīrāz and a Shāfiʿī.

He arrived in Baghdad as a professor appointed by Niẓām al-Mulk in the year 483 AH, sharing the chair with al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī; each of them lectured on alternate days, but after a year the two were dismissed.

He dictated traditions on the authority of the hadith scholar Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Layth; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Yūsuf al-Qazzāz; ʿAlī ibn Bundār al-Ḥanafī; Abū Zurʿa Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Khaṭīb; and al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Karāmah— all of them from Shīrāz.

Those who narrated from him include ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī and Ibn Nāṣir.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Naḥwī informed us; Ibn Nāṣir narrated to us; the imam, the Ornament of Islam, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wahhāb—known as al-Fāmī—narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Yūsuf narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Bayān, the ḥāfiẓ, narrated to us; Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Raqqī narrated to us there…,” and he mentioned a hadith.

Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara said: “ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad al-Fāmī was among the foremost Shāfiʿī imams. I heard a great deal from him, and I heard him say, ‘I have authored seventy works; in my Qurʾānic commentary I inserted one hundred thousand lines of poetry as corroborative evidence.’ On one occasion he dictated, and a flagrant scribal error was preserved against him; the people turned on him, pressed him, and accused him of holding Muʿtazilī views, so he fled for his life.”

Aḥmad ibn Thābit al-Ṭarqī (1) said: “I heard several people relate that ʿAbd al-Wahhāb once dictated…"