Among those who narrated from him were al-Nasāʾī in his Sunan—who declared, “He is reliable” (1)—Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, Abū ʿAwānah, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Raqqī, and many others.

He passed away in Ṣafar of the year 267 AH.

231 – Abū Aḥmad al-Farrāʾ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ḥabīb * (S)
The imām, the luminary, the ḥāfiẓ, the man of letters: Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ḥabīb ibn Mihrān al-ʿAbdī, al-Farrāʾ, from Nīshāpūr.
He was also known by the sobriquet “Ḥamaka” (2).

He was the foremost of the shaykhs of Nīshāpūr in intellect, knowledge, dignity, and stature.

He was born sometime after 180 AH.

He heard ḥadith from Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn, Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, Muḥāḍir ibn al-Muwarriʿ, Ibn Kināsah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the jurist, al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Walīd, Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Sulamī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zubālah, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the Qur’an-reciter, Shabābah ibn Sawwār, al-Wāqidī, and a great many others.

He acquired his mastery of Arabic literature from al-Aṣmaʿī, Abū ʿUbayd, and a group of scholars, and he studied the science of ḥadith