and Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān al-Ṭawīl; Ibn ʿAjlān; Abū Ḥanīfah; Mūsā ibn ʿAlī; ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith; Mālik; and a great many others.

Those who narrated from him include: al-Layth ibn Saʿd (a contemporary of his); Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim (older than he); Ibn Jurayj (one of his own teachers); Ibn al-Mubārak; Ibn Wahb; Mūsā ibn Aʿyan; Isḥāq ibn al-Furāt; Ashhab ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; Zayd ibn al-Ḥabbāb; Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam; Saʿīd ibn ʿUfair; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ the scribe; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ; ʿAmr ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṭāriq; Yaḥyā ibn Isḥāq al-Saylaḥīnī; and others besides them.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “He ranks below Ḥaywah and Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb; his memory is poor.”

Isḥāq al-Kawsaj reported from Ibn Maʿīn that he said, “Reliable.” On another occasion Ibn Maʿīn said, “Acceptable.”

Abū Ḥātim remarked, “He is preferable to me over ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Mawāl; his general standing is that of truthfulness, yet he is not cited as independent proof.”

Abū ʿUbayd al-Ājurrī relates: I asked Abū Dāwūd, “Is Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb trustworthy?” He replied, “He is acceptable.”

Al-Nasāʾī said, “There is no problem with him,” though on another occasion he said, “He is not strong.”

I say: He has some singular and objectionable narrations which the authors of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections avoid, carefully sifting what they transmit from him; nonetheless, his ḥadiths are ḥasan.

Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said: He was one of the earnest seekers of knowledge. He narrated from scholars in Mecca, Medina, al-Shām, Egypt, and Iraq. Outsiders transmitted from him reports that the scholars of Egypt do not possess from him. Among those who narrated from him was Yaḥyā ibn Isḥāq, from Yazīd ibn Abī