He went on: Abu al-Saydāʾ (1) Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṭarīf related to me:
“When Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar (2) entered Iraq I wept and said, ‘This is the man who beat Wahb ibn Munabbih until he killed him.’ (3)”
That is to say, Yūsuf had first been appointed governor of Yemen; then Caliph Hishām transferred him to the governorship of Iraq. He was a tyrannical, stubborn, and awe-inspiring ruler. Al-Madāʾinī reports that his banqueting hall in Iraq held five hundred tables every day, the most distant and the nearest of them being identical in quality. He was removed from the governorship of Iraq after the killing of the debauched al-Walīd, and his head was struck off—praise be to Allah—in 127 AH (4).
I remark: In the two Ṣaḥīḥs there is nothing from Wahb ibn Munabbih except a single hadith, transmitted to us through the following chain: Ibn Qudāmah informed us; Hanbal informed us; Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn informed us; Ibn al-Mudhhib informed us; Ibn Mālik informed us; ʿAbd Allāh told us, saying, “My father told me”; Sufyān, from ʿAmr, from Ibn Munabbih, from his brother, who said:
“I heard Abū Hurayrah say: ‘No one reports more hadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ than I, except ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr; he used to write, whereas I did not write.’”
Al-Wāqidī, his secretary (5), Shabbāb, Abū ʿUbayd, and ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Idrīs held that Wahb died in 110 AH. The father of ʿAbd al-Razzāq, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Maʿqil, and Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ said he died in 114 AH; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad added, “in Muḥarram.”