ʿUyaynah say, “Allah’s wrath is an illness for which there is no cure.”
I add: Its cure is plentiful istighfār before dawn and a wholehearted repentance.
Al-Ḥākim said: I read in the handwriting of Abū ʿAmr al-Mustamlī that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr died on the night of Wednesday, the eighteenth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir in the year 260 AH. Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb led the funeral prayer over him, pronouncing four takbīrs and giving a single taslīm. Afterwards, Yaḥyā ibn al-Dhuhlī came to the grave with a large crowd and led them in prayer there.
His father was the ascetic, trustworthy jurist and ḥāfiẓ, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān:
139 – Bishr ibn al-Ḥakam al-ʿAbdī * (Bukhārī, Muslim, Nasāʾī)
One of the notable figures of Nishapur.
He was born around the year one hundred and forty-odd AH, or thereabouts.
He narrated from Abū Shaybah al-ʿAbsī, Mālik ibn Anas, Sharīk the judge, Muslim az-Zanjī, ʿAbd-Rabbihi ibn Bāriq, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Rijāl, Fudayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, and many others.
He had a more precise memory than his son and a broader range of transmissions.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Bukhārī, Muslim, al-Nasāʾī, Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, Abū Muḥammad ad-Dārimī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ad-Dhuhlī, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib, his cousin Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ (1), al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, and Musaddad ibn Qaṭan.