the son of Adam, nothing beyond that.
One of those who kept company with him told me that anyone who sat with him would inevitably come away with knowledge, forbearance, and a settled certainty in jurisprudence and hadith.
It was also said that he would sometimes gather simple plants to provide for his daily needs.
He passed away in the year 344 AH, and people still visit his grave.
288 – Abu ʿUmar the Ascetic, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Baghdādī
The incomparable imam, the erudite scholar, philologist, and hadith expert: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī Hāshim al-Baghdādī, the ascetic, better known as “Ghulām Thaʿlab.”
He was born in 261 AH.
He heard hadith from: Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Washaʾ, Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Narsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, Aḥmad ibn Ziyād ibn Mihrān al-Simsār, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Haytham al-Baladī, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Bishr ibn Mūsā al-Asadī, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Jammāl, Muḥammad ibn Hishām ibn al-Bakhtarī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿAbsī.
He attached himself to Thaʿlab for the study of Arabic and transmitted from him profusely; he is counted among the senior authorities