Mālik, al-Layth, Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb, ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, and so many others?!

ʿAlī ibn al-Junayd, the ḥāfiẓ, said: “I heard Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī praising Ibn Wahb and saying, ‘The questions he put to Mālik are sound.’

Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: ‘He is truthful, his ḥadith are acceptable (1).’

Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī said in his al-Kāmil (2): ‘He is among the trustworthy; I know of no objectionable report of his when a reliable transmitter narrates from him.’

Abū Ṭālib related from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal: ‘Ibn Wahb distinguishes between direct audition and transmission by presentation. How authentic and firmly established his ḥadith are! He was weak in receiving, yet whatever he narrated or transmitted I found to be sound (3).’

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said: ‘Reliable (4).’

Khālid ibn Khidāsh reported: ‘When the book “The Terrors of the Day of Resurrection,” which he himself had written, was read aloud to ʿAbd Allah ibn Wahb, he fell unconscious. He did not utter a single word until he died a few days later—may Allah, Exalted be He, have mercy on him (5).’

Sahnūn the jurist said: ‘Ibn Wahb divided his life into three parts: one third on the frontier ribāṭ, one third teaching the people in Egypt, and one third on pilgrimage. It is reported that he performed the Hajj thirty-six times.’