a radiance as white as sunlight. The owner of the house said, “I saw you tonight in a certain form.” He then told him what he had seen, whereupon Wahb replied, “Keep to yourself what you have seen.”⦗1⦘

Muslim al-Zanji narrated: al-Muthannā ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ told me that Wahb ibn Munabbih lived forty years without ever insulting a creature that possesses a soul, and twenty years without renewing his ablution between the night prayer and dawn.
He also reported that Wahb said, “I have read thirty scriptures that were sent down to thirty prophets.”⦗2⦘

Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān related—through ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Maʿqil—who said: “I stayed with my uncle Wahb for several months, and he would perform the dawn prayer with the same ablution he had used for the night prayer.”⦗1⦘

Salam ibn Maymūn al-Khawwāṣ transmitted—on the authority of Muslim al-Zanji—who said: “Wahb ibn Munabbih spent forty years without sleeping on a bed, and twenty years without making a new ablution between the late-night (ʿatamah) prayer and dawn.”⦗3⦘

ʿAbd al-Razzaq ibn Hammām reported from his father: “I saw Wahb; whenever he rose for the witr prayer he would say,
‘To You belongs everlasting praise—praise that no reckoning can encompass and that eternity cannot cut off; praise as befits Your being praised, as suits Your majesty, and as is Your due upon us.’”⦗4⦘

ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Idrīs narrated from his father: “Wahb used to keep account of every word he uttered each day; if he found nothing amiss he would break his fast, otherwise he would continue fasting.”⦗4⦘

ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Maʿqil said that al-Jaʿd ibn Dirham remarked, “I have never spoken with a scholar but that he became angry and loosened his wrap—except Wahb.”⦗4⦘

Maʿmar reported—from Simāk ibn al-Faḍl—who said: “We were in the company of the governor ʿUrwah ibn Muḥammad,”