Samʿān; Mālik; al-Layth; Ibn Lahiʿah; Ḥarmalah ibn ʿImrān; Salamah ibn Wardān al-Madanī; al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿUthmān; ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Qitbānī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād al-Ifriqī; and many others.
He met a number of the younger Tābiʿūn (Successors) and was a veritable vessel of knowledge and a storehouse of righteous deeds.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr relates in his book Al-ʿIlm that Ibn Wahb said:
“My first concern was devotion before I turned to the pursuit of knowledge. Then Satan began to pester me with thoughts about Jesus son of Mary—how God the Exalted created him and the like. I complained of this to a shaykh, and he said to me, ‘Ibn Wahh!’ I replied, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Seek knowledge.’ And that was what set me on the path of learning.”
I say: Although he set out on his quest for knowledge while still very young—indeed—multitudes narrated from him; his learning spread far and wide, and his fame travelled great distances.
Among those who reported ḥadith from him were al-Layth ibn Saʿd—his own teacher—ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Aṣbagh ibn al-Faraj, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṣāliḥ, Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Tustarī, Ḥarmalah ibn Yaḥyā, Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, al-Ḥārith ibn Miskīn, Abū al-Ṭāhir ibn al-Sarraḥ, ʿAmrū ibn Sawwād, Hārūn ibn Saʿīd al-Aylī, Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-Maqābirī, Suḥnūn ibn Saʿīd—the scholar of the Maghrib—Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ, Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, Baḥr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Munqid al-Khawlānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, his nephew Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Wahbī, ʿAlī ibn Khushram, ʿĪsā ibn Mathrūd al-Ghāfiqī, al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Murādī, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shuʿayb ibn al-Layth, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Hamdānī, and many others.