You dubbed them the Folk of ḥadith, people of sound judgment and penetrating insight,
then derided them as “Hashawiyya” – shame on you, and on anyone who joins in belittling them. (1)
They are the very “filling” of the Gardens of Bliss, reclining on couches and upon pulpits;
all are companions of Ahmad, leaving his Basin with their thirst fully quenched.

Among his other verses are:
A man who still claims the bloom of youth,
though grey hair has wrapped his abundant locks like a turban,
dyes his beard with washma;
it is enough that he lies in his very beard.

Qāḍī Ibn Khallikān (2) quoted a selection of his finer poetry and recorded that he died in this same year, having passed the age of eighty – may Allah have mercy on him.

ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Abū Muḥammad (3) al-Shīrāzī, al-Fārisī (4).
He heard a great many hadiths and studied jurisprudence. In 483 AH Nizām al-Mulk appointed him to teach at the Niẓāmiyya in Baghdad. He taught there for some time and used to dictate hadiths, but he was prone to many transcription errors. On one occasion he narrated the hadith, “A prayer followed by another prayer is recorded in ʿIlliyyīn” (5), yet he rendered it, “like a fire in the darkness before dawn,” and then explained this as meaning that its light is stronger.

Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Asadī, the poet (6).
He met Abū al-Ḥasan al-Tihāmī and was enamoured of composing replies to his poems. He resided in Yemen and Iraq, then in the Ḥijāz, and later in Khurāsān. Among his verses:
I said: “By coming time and again I have grown burdensome.”
He replied: “You have only burdened my back (7) with favours.”
I said: “I have stayed too long.” He said: “Rather, you have shown exceeding courtesy.” (8)
I said: “I have torn—.” He said: “—the bond of affection.”