Among those who narrated from him were Bishr ibn Mansūr al-Sulamī, Ibn al-Mubārak, ʿAbd al-Razzaq, Idrīs ibn Muḥammad al-Rūdhī, and many others.

Ibn Idrīs said, “I never saw anyone more devoted than he.”

Ibn al-Mubārak related that someone asked Wahīb, “Can a person who disobeys (Allah) ever experience the sweetness of worship?” He replied, “Not even one who merely intends to disobey.”

Al-Thawrī remarked, “Rise and go to the physician”—meaning Wahīb.

It is reported that he swore never to laugh until the angels informed him of his rank when the moment of death arrived.

Ibn Maʿīn judged him trustworthy, and al-Nasāʾī said, “There is nothing wrong with him.”

It is said that he died in 153 AH.

76 – ʿĪsā ibn ʿUmar, Abū ʿUmar al-Hamdānī * (T, S)

The imām, Qurʾān reciter, and devoted worshipper, Abū ʿUmar al-Hamdānī al-Kūfī—known as “al-Hamdānī,” though in fact he was a client of Banū Asad.

He learned the Qurʾān directly (ʿarḍan) from Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif, ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, and al-Aʿmash.

Those who recited to him included al-Kisāʾī, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Mūsā, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥammād, Mitt ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and others.

He also transmitted ḥadīth from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, Ḥammād the jurist, and ʿAmr ibn Murrah.

Narrators from him comprise Ibn al-Mubārak, Wakīʿ, Abū Nuʿaym, al-Firyābī, Khallād ibn Yaḥyā, and a large company besides.

Ibn Maʿīn and others declared him reliable.

He was the principal Qurʾān teacher of Kūfa in his era, succeeding Ḥamzah and serving alongside him.

Al-Thawrī said, “No one in the city recites better than he.”