He relates:
“I heard Anas ibn Mālik say, ‘Since the Messenger of Allah—may peace and blessings be upon him—I have never prayed behind anyone whose prayer more closely resembled his than that of this young man,’ meaning ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. He added, ‘We estimated that he uttered “subḥān Allāh” about ten times in each bowing and ten times in each prostration.’
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, ‘Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar ibn Kaysān is a trustworthy Yemeni.’
Hishām ibn Yūsuf reported, ‘Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar informed me, and he was among those who performed the prayer most perfectly.’
Regarding his son ʿAbdullāh, Abū Ḥātim remarked, ‘His ḥadīths are sound.’
As for Wahb ibn Mānus—with a nūn—this is how ʿAbdullāh pronounces the name, whereas ʿAbd al-Razzāq pronounces it with a bā’ dotted below. He was an elder ḥadīth teacher.
(1) ḥazarna means “we estimated or roughly gauged”; see Mukhtar al-Sihah, root H-R-Z, p. 133.
(2) Sunan Abi Dawud, Book of Prayer, chapter “The Extent of Bowing and Prostration,” ḥadith no. 888 (1:551); Sunan al-Nasai, Book of the Opening, chapter “How Many Tasbih in Prostration” (2:224-25); Musnad Ahmad 3:162-63. The author has already discussed the chain of transmission in sufficient detail.
(3) MS A reads: qala (“he said”).
(4) See Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 1:147, biog. no. 263.
(5) Ibid.
(6) See al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 5:3, biog. no. 11.
(7) MS C reads: yaqul (“he says”).
(8) That is, ʿAbd Allah b. Ibrahim b. ʿUmar b. Kaysan, mentioned above.
(9) Namely, ʿAbd al-Razzaq b. Hammam al-Sanʿani; his biography has already been given—see the index of names.
(10) MS A has: wahida; the point is that ʿAbd al-Razzaq calls him Ibn Banus.