—and it was Kisrā who expelled him from Herat. Later he embraced Islam during the Prophet’s lifetime, and his conversion was sound.

Their residence thereafter was in Yemen, yet Wahb ibn Munabbih would make regular journeys to Herat to look after the affairs of that city⦗1⦘.

Hassān ibn Ibrāhīm narrated: Yahyā ibn Zabbān related to us⦗2⦘; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rāshid informed us, from a freedman of Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, who said: I heard Khālid ibn Maʿdān narrate from ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit that he heard the Prophet ﷺ say:

“There will arise in my community two men. One of them will be called Wahb, to whom Allah will grant sound judgment; the other will be called Ghailān, and he will be harsher upon my community than Satan.”⦗3⦘

Ibn Maʿīn was asked about Ibn Zabbān and his shaykh, and he replied, “I do not know either of them.”

Al-Walīd ibn Muslim reported—from Marwān ibn Sālim, who is weak⦗4⦘—from Aḥwaṣ ibn Ḥakīm, from Khālid, from ʿUbādah, a report traced back to the Prophet with similar wording; he said, “more harmful to my community.”

ʿAbd al-Razzāq also transmitted—from his father—from Wahb—who said:

“People say that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām was the most learned man of his time, and that Kaʿb was the most learned man of his time. So what do you think of the one who combined the knowledge of both of them? Would he be more learned than they, or would they still surpass him?”⦗5⦘
Its chain is murky.

Kathīr related that he travelled with Wahb and they spent the night in Ṣaʿdah⦗6⦘ at a certain man’s house. The man’s daughter came out and saw a lit lamp, whereupon the master of the house looked in and saw him standing with his feet together in—