at him a question of jurisprudence taken from al-Shafiʿi’s teaching, and Yazid replied with an answer other than al-Shafiʿi’s view. Al-Rabiʿ then said, “O Abu al-Qasim, you ought to look into fiqh.”
I say: He was born in the year 198 AH, and he died in Damascus, in Shawwal, 276 AH.
His son, Muhammad ibn Yazid (1), is the compiler of the elevated fascicle (al-juzʾ al-ʿālī) that Ibn Ghalib al-Qawwas transmitted. He passed away in 299 AH (2).
83 – al-Hawṭī, Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Najdah * (S (3))
The muhaddith and scholar, Abu ʿAbd Allah Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Najdah al-Hawṭī, originally from Homs and later a resident of the city of Jableh.
He heard hadith from his father, Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Wahbi, Junadah ibn Marwan, Abu al-Mughira al-Khawlani, ʿAli ibn ʿAyyash, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Nasaʾi—in The Book of Day and Night—ʿAli ibn Siraj, and ʿAbd