and transmitted from him were: ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Maḥmūd ibn Ghailān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Munīr, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām, Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj al-Azraq, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbdawayh, and others besides.
It was said that Abū Bakr al-Athram met him and narrated from him, but this is unlikely.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and a number of other scholars declared him reliable.
He was counted among the jurists as well as the hadith specialists.
He said, “I heard from Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah in the year 141 AH, or perhaps 142,” (1) meaning that he learned from him before the latter’s memory changed.
It is reported that he died in Muḥarram of the year 208 AH, when he was close to ninety.
It is also related that Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Māzinī and ʿĪsā ibn ʿUmar once differed over whether the word should be pronounced satr or satar, and they appointed Bakr ibn Ḥabīb to judge between them.
171 – ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAtāʾ al-Baṣrī al-Khaffāf * (M, 4)
The Imām, trustworthy, devout worshipper, and hadith scholar, Abū Naṣr al-Baṣrī al-Khaffāf; a client of Banū ʿIjl who later settled in Baghdad.