He also reported ḥadith from his own father, from ʿUmar, and from Ibn ʿAbbās.
He visited Muʿāwiyah as part of a delegation.
Those who narrated from him include his sons—Jubayr, ʿUmar, Saʿīd, and Ibrāhīm—as well as ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, al-Zuhrī, Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, and other scholars of Medina.
He was counted among the noble scholars, a man of books who was devoted to learning.
Ibn Saʿd (1) said: “Reliable, but he transmitted only a few reports.”
I (the author) say: He died in Medina a short time after his brother Nāfiʿ; it is also said that his death occurred during the caliphate of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.
219 — Wahb ibn Munabbih ibn Kāmil ibn Sīj ibn Dhī Kibār * (ʿ)
He was known as al-Aswār—the imam, the erudite scholar, historian, and storyteller—Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Abnāwī, the Yemeni, from Dhamār and later Ṣanʿāʾ.
He was the brother of Hammām ibn Munabbih, Maʿqil ibn Munabbih, and Ghailān ibn Munabbih.
= al-Tarikh 1/363; al-Jarh wa’l-Ta‘dil, part 2 of vol. 3, p. 218; Tarikh Ibn ʿAsakir 15/79 a; Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1181; Tarikh al-Islam 4/50; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 3/193 b; al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya 9/186; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 9/91; Khulasa Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 330.
(1) In al-Tabaqat 5/205.
(*) Tabaqat Ibn Saʿd 5/543; al-Zuhd by Ahmad, p. 371; Tabaqat Khalifa, ed. T, 2652; Tarikh al-Bukhari 8/164; al-Maʿarif, p. 459; al-Jarh wa’l-Ta‘dil, part 2 of vol. 4, p. 24; Dhayl al-Mudhail, p. 640; Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ 4/23; Tabaqat al-Fuqahaʾ by al-Shirazi, p. 74; Tarikh Ibn ʿAsakir 17/474 a; Tabaqat Fuqahaʾ al-Yaman, p. 57; Muʿjam al-Udabaʾ 19/259; Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa’l-Lughat, part 1 of vol. 2, p. 149; Wafayat al-Aʿyan 6/37; Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1484; Tarikh al-Islam 5/14; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 1/95; al-ʿIbar 1/143; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 4/143 a; al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya 9/276; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 11/166; Tabaqat al-Khawas, p. 161; Tabaqat al-Huffaz by al-Suyuti, p. 41; Khulasa Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 419; Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/150.
(2) The author vocalizes the word in this way; the commentator on al-Qamus records three pronunciations—one with fatha, another with kasra, and a fully vowelized form. See the entry “siyaj.”