Volume Eight
1 – Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ghāfiqī (ʿ)
The imām, ḥadith scholar, and renowned Egyptian authority, counted among the mawālī (clients) of Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam.
He transmitted from: Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb; Abū Qabīl Ḥuyayy ibn Hāniʾ; Jaʿfar ibn Rabīʿah; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ḥazm; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār; ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah; Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah; Bakr ibn ʿAmr; Rabīʿah al-Raʾy; Zabban (1) ibn Fāʾid; Zayd ibn Jabīrah; Sahl ibn Muʿādh al-Juhanī; ʿUqayl ibn Khālid; Abū al-Aswad Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd; ʿAyyāsh ibn ʿAbbās al-Qitbānī (2); Kaʿb ibn ʿAlqamah; Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Hād; Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl; Hishām ibn Ḥassān; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥarmalah; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zahr; and Abū Ḥāzim al-Aʿraj.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, 7/516; Khalifa, al-Tabaqat, p. 296; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 8/260; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlamaʾ al-Amsar, no. 1528, p. 190; al-ʿUqayli, al-Duʿafaʾ, 3/243; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 9/127; Ibn ʿAdi, al-Kamil, 2/421; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 1493; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1/228, 277; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 4/362; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 1/243; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 11/186; Ibn Hajar, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 362; Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Duʿafaʾ wa-l-Matroukin, p. 108; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif, 3/250; Ibn Hajar, Tazhib al-Tahdhib, 4/149/1; al-Dhahabi, al-Mughni, 2/731; al-Suyuti, Husn al-Muhadara, 1/300; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 96.
(1) The manuscript has “Ziyad,” which is an error.
(2) al-Qatbani: the qaf is pronounced with kasra; the nisba refers to Qatban, a locality near Aden in Yemen.