Anas ibn Mālik, and he further alleged that he had seen the Mother of the Believers ʿĀʾishah in Basra.
- Yaḥyā ibn ʿAmmār ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAmmār ibn al-ʿAnbas—an imam, ḥadīth scholar, and preacher; the Shaykh of Sijistān; Abū Zakariyyā al-Shaybānī, al-Nihī, al-Sijistānī, long-term resident of Herat.
He narrated from Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad al-Raffāʾ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAdī ibn Ḥamduwayh al-Ṣābūnī, his brother Muḥammad ibn ʿAdī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Janāḥ, and several others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Naṣr al-Ṭabasī(1), Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Harawī, Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ismāʿīl ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, and many others.
He was uncompromising toward the innovators and the Jahmiyyah, to the point that his zeal sometimes carried him beyond the methodology of the Salaf—and Allah has set a due measure for everything. Nevertheless, he enjoyed remarkable prestige in Herat and had numerous followers and supporters.
He also related ḥadīths from his father ʿAmmār.
Eloquent and articulate, moving in his admonitions, he was a leading authority on Qurʾanic exegesis, the most accomplished