- Abū Zakariyyā Yahyā ibn Sulaym al-Qurashī, al-Tāʾifī (ʿ)
He was Imām Abū Zakariyyā Yahyā ibn Sulaym al-Qurashī—known as al-Tāʾifī, al-Adamī, al-Ḥaddāʾ (the cobbler), and al-Khazzāz (the silk dealer). A longtime resident of Mecca, he was an elderly shaykh and ḥadith scholar.
He transmitted ḥadith from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān ibn Khuthaym, Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Ibn Jurayj, Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad, Isḥāq, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Kathīr ibn ʿUbayd, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, and others.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal possessed from him only a single ḥadith.
Ibn Saʿd said: “He is trustworthy and prolific in ḥadith.” (1)
Al-Shāfiʿī said: “He was a virtuous man; we counted him among the abdāl. Whenever he mounted a donkey or any riding beast, he would not say to it, ‘Move on,’ but would instead say, ‘There is no god but Allah.’”
Al-Nasāʾī remarked: “He is not strong.”
Aḥmad said: “I saw him mixing up ḥadith, so I left him.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said: “He is trustworthy.” (2)