I (the author) add: he first held the judgeship of Basra, and afterward the judiciary of Baghdad’s eastern quarter under al-Maʾmūn. He is the grandfather of Abū Rifāʿah ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥabīb al-ʿAdawī.
More than one source relates that he died in Basra in 207 AH.
It is also said that Hārūn al-Rashīd intended to execute him because he corrected one of the caliph’s mistakes, but Allah protected him. (1)
184 – Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zuhrī * (ʿ)
A descendant of the Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf.
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, and authoritative scholar, Abū Yūsuf al-Zuhrī, al-ʿAwfī, originally of Medina and later Baghdad.
He narrated from: his father, the ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd; Shuʿbah; ʿĀṣim ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUmarī; ʿUbaydah ibn Abī Rāʾiṭah; Muḥammad, the nephew of al-Zuhrī; Sharīk; al-Layth; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Muṭṭalib; Saif ibn ʿUmar; Abū Uways ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh; and ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn Sabrah. He was counted among the senior ḥadīth transmitters.
Those who transmitted from him include Aḥmad, Isḥāq, ʿAlī, Yaḥyā, and Abū Khaythamah,