in his presence.

As for Wahb ibn Munabbih, it was said that he lived to one hundred and forty years.

ʿAbd Allah reported: I heard my father say, “I saw Musa ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Hasan ibn Hasan, and he was a devout man.”

I also heard my father say, “Yusuf ibn Yaʿqub ibn al-Majishun narrated to us, and among the hadith transmitters I have met, I found none older than he.”

Abu ʿAbd Allah added, “I went to see Yusuf ibn al-Majishun; he had with him almost two hundred hadiths, but I did not meet Maʿna al-Qazzaz.”

Al-Marwadhi relates: I heard Abu ʿAbd Allah say, “I wrote more from Wakīʿ than from anyone else, and I heard thirty hadiths from ʿAbd al-Salam ibn Harb.”

ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad said: I asked my father about Abu Sayfi (1), who narrates from Mujahid. He replied, “We have written from him—narrations from Mujahid, from al-Maqburi, and from al-Hakam—but his reports are of no significance (2). I did not hear anything from ʿIsa ibn Yunus. I saw Sulayman the Qur’an-reciter in Kufa, and a young student was reciting to him with precise articulation and proper pronunciation of the hamzah (3).”

Abu ʿAbd Allah also said, “Ismaʿil ibn Mujalid was here; I met him but did not take any narrations from him, and I saw al-Ashjaʿi.”