192 – Ibn Qumayra, Yaḥyā ibn Naṣr ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Tamīmī
A venerable shaykh, the foremost transmitter of his time, and a trustworthy man of religion. He is Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyā, son of Abū al-Suʿūd Naṣr, son of Abī al-Qāsim, son of Abū al-Ḥasan—known as Ibn Qumayra al-Tamīmī, of the Yarbūʿ and Ḥanẓala branches of the Banū Tamīm, a Baghdadi from the Azaj quarter, a merchant and frequent traveller.
He was born in 565 AH.
He studied ḥadith with Shuhda the Scribe, Tajannī al-Wahbāniyya, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Shīḥī, and al-Ḥasan ibn Shīrawayh.
During his journeys he taught in Egypt, Damascus, Aleppo, and Baghdad; his name became well-known, and the ḥadith masters gathered before him.
Among those who narrated from him are: Ibn al-Najjar, Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyya, al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Ẓāhirī, al-Bahāʾ Ayyūb al-Asadī, his brother Isḥāq, the Ḥanbalī judge, Baybars al-ʿAdīmī, al-ʿImād ibn al-Bālīsī, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Yusr, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muqayyar, ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar the muʾadhdhin, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shaykh, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, al-Taqī ibn Tammām, and many others—the last of them being Ibn al-Kharrāṭ and Abū Naṣr ibn al-Shīrāzī.
He died in Baghdad in Jumādā al-Ūlā (1), 650 AH.
Ibn al-Najjar remarked: “A good shaykh; there is no problem with him.”