al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥabbah (1) al-Baghdādī, known as al-Ṭaḥḥān (“the Miller”), the transmitter of the Musnad in Ḥarrān.
He heard hadith from Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, Abū Ghālib ibn al-Bannāʾ, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad, the son of the judge Abū Yaʿlā, Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ṭabar, Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mazrafī, and a number of others.
He was poor, content, and dignified.
Those who narrated from him include al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṣudayq, Aḥmad ibn Salāmah al-Najjār, and the scholars of Ḥarrān.
Ibn al-Najjār (2) said, “He was acceptable and bore his poverty with patience.” Ibn al-Dubaythī (3) remarked, “He was poor, patient, and his auditions were sound.”
He was born in 516 AH, and death overtook him in Ḥarrān on the twenty-first of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 588 AH.
In that same year died: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿIrāqī al-Ḥanbalī, the Qurʾān reciter and one of the leading imams of Damascus; Ismāʿīl al-Janzawī, the legal-document specialist; the mufti of Wāsiṭ, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan (4) ibn the imam Abū Jaʿfar Hibat Allāh ibn al-Būqī, a Shāfiʿī; and the traditionist—