Abbas al-Duri narrated from Yahya ibn Maʿin, who had heard Ibn Wahb say to Sufyan:

“O Abu Muhammad, the material that so-and-so recited before you yesterday—grant me permission to transmit it.”

He replied, “Yes.” (1)

I say: This practice is the position of a number of scholars, and transmission by means of it is permissible; it is likewise the view of al-Zuhri and Ibn ʿUyaynah.

Ibn ʿAdi also reported: Ibrahim ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Makhzumi told us, on the authority of his father, who said:

“I was with Sufyan, and Ibn Maʿin was present, when Ibn Wahb came to him with a fascicle. He said, ‘O Abu Muhammad, may I narrate what it contains on your authority?’ Ibn Maʿin said to him, ‘Shaykh, this and the wind are the same; hand the fascicle over so that we may examine its hadiths.’”

ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Dawraqi said: I heard Ibn Maʿin say, “Ibn Wahb is not up to the mark in what he transmits from Ibn Jurayj; he was considered too young.”

Yet it has been reported that al-Layth ibn Saʿd heard from Ibn Wahb some of the narrations of Ibn Jurayj.

Among his singular reports is the chain: from Ibn Jurayj, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir—that a man