the Commander of the Believers, moved by his appetites, is merely waiting for inheritances to come his way, then seventy dinars is already a hefty sum to spend on me.”
116 – Wahb ibn Baqiyyah ibn ʿUthmān ibn Sābūr ibn ʿUbayd ibn Ādam (M, D, S)
A traditionist, eminent imam, and reliable authority—Abū Muḥammad al-Wāsiṭī, also called Wahbān.
Born: 155 AH, as recorded by Bahshal (1) in his History.
He transmitted from: Ḥammād ibn Zayd (one anecdote), Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ṭaḥḥān, Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān, Marḥūm ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, al-Ḥakam ibn Ẓuhayr, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī, Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, Hushaym, Nūḥ ibn Qays, Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar, al-Mughīrah ibn Muṭarrif (a native of Wāsiṭ), Muḥammad ibn Hārūn ibn ʿUbayd (a shaykh of Wāsiṭ), Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Ghunayyah, and others.
Among those who narrated from him are: Muslim; Abū Dāwūd; al-Nasāʾī—through Zakariyā Khayyāṭ al-Sunnah; Abū Zurʿah; Baqī; Jaʿfar al-Firyābī; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Marwazī; ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad; Abū Yaʿlā; al-Baghawī; ʿAbdān; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj; Ibn Nājah; Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Wāsiṭī; ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq ibn Zāṭiyā; and many others besides.
Hāshim ibn Marthad reports from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, who said: “Wahbān is trustworthy, though he began listening while still a youth.”