—that his uncle had died in 104 AH. The same was affirmed by Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd and Ibn ʿUyaynah. Al-Wāqidī added: “and he was seventy-two years old.” Ibn Saʿd, Khalīfah, and al-Zubayr said: “He passed away on the seventeenth night of Ramadan, in 124 AH.” Abū Mushir differed, saying that he died in 125 AH.
161 – Yahyā al-Bakkaʾ al-Basrī (t, q)
A Basran shaykh and transmitter of hadith; there is some leniency in his reliability. He belonged to the mawālī of the Azd. His full name is Yahyā ibn Muslim. Others said he was Yahyā ibn Sulaymān, and still others, Ibn Sulaym; he is also identified as Yahyā ibn Abī Khulayid.
He narrated from Ibn ʿUmar, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, Abū al-ʿĀliyah, and others, although his narrations are few.
Those who transmitted from him include Ḥammād ibn Salamah, ʿAbd al-Wārith, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Qudāmah ibn Shihāb, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Narmaqī (1), ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, and others.
Ibn Saʿd said: “Reliable—if Allah wills.”
Abū Zurʿah said: “He is not strong; Yahyā al-Qaṭṭān did not approve of him.”
ʿAbbās reported from Yahyā: “Wakīʿ narrates from one of his shaykhs who is weak, named Yahyā ibn Muslim, a Kufan.”
I (the author) say: This is how Ibn ʿAdī presented it in the biography of al-Bakkaʾ, but he erred, for al-Bakkaʾ died in 130 AH.