for the elevated chain; otherwise, go and hear the fascicle from my pupils—for in the very alley there is a group who received it from me.’

If, however, the shaykh is difficult and burdensome, has no other occupation, and is wealthy, he should not be given anything. Allah is the One who grants success.

Ibn Yūnus said: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 264 AH.

I add: He was in his nineties—may Allah have mercy on him—and he transmitted thousands of sound hadiths. Against that background, five objectionable reports do not justify abandoning him; granted, he was not as strong as Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā or Bundar.

123 – ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ al-Baghdādī (D, T, S)
The Imām, the exemplar, the godly scholar, the authoritative proof; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī, the stationer.

He heard hadith from Abū Ḍamrah al-Laythī, Yaḥyā ibn Sulaym al-Ṭāʿifī, Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh, and their peers.

Those who narrated from him include Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, al-Baghawī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, al-Maḥāmilī, and several others.

Al-Nasāʾī said: Reliable.⦗1⦘

Al-Marrūdhī said: I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say: ‘ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Warraq:’