I add: Ibn Wahb possessed ample means and wealth, and he used to assist Sufyān and honor him; for that reason Sufyān said, “I in particular have been afflicted by his loss.”
Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā said: They wished to appoint Ibn Wahb to the judiciary, so he went into hiding.
He also said: Ibn Wahb died in Shaʿbān of the year 197 AH.
I further state: He lived seventy-two years, and a set of his higher-level transmissions has reached us in al-Khilaʿiyyāt (1), the Thaqafiyyāt (2), and elsewhere.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī informed me; my father related to me; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Lubābah narrated to us; I heard Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ʿUtbi say:
Suhnun ibn Saʿīd told me that he saw ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim in a dream and asked him, “What has Allah done with you?” He replied, “I found with Him what I love.” I asked, “Which of your deeds did you find best?” He answered, “The recitation of the Quran.” I then said, “And the legal questions (al-masāʾil)?” whereupon he gestured with his finger, waving them away (3). Suhnun continued, “I used to ask him about Ibn Wahb, and he would say to me, ‘He is in ʿIlliyyīn.’”
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān and Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad told us: Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir told us; Abū al-Qāsim Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad told us; ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī told us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mukhalliṣ told us; Yaḥyā ibn