Abū al-ʿAbbās Ibn ʿUqda said: “Ibn Wārah knocked at the door of Ibn Kuraib. ‘Who is it?’ he asked. He replied, ‘Ibn Wārah—the father of hadith, and its mother!’
Al-Ḥāfiẓ (hadith master) Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim slipped and claimed that Ibn Wārah had heard directly from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah and Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān.
Ibn al-Munādī likewise erred in his work on deaths, stating that Ibn Wārah died in 265 AH.
The correct date, however, is what was reported by Ibn Makhlad and others: he passed away in Ramadan of 270 AH.
Bilāl ibn ʿAbd Allāh the servant (1) informed us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Rawāj also informed us; and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Khallāl informed us. Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, the ḥāfiẓ, transmitted to us; they both said:
Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī informed us—the first transmission by direct audition, the second by written authorization. Muḥammad and Aḥmad, the two sons of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Sūdhrajānī (2), informed us, saying:
ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Faraḍī informed us; Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm informed us; Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn Wārah narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Kurayzī (3) narrated to us; Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī—