as did al-Aʿyan and Muṭayyin. Muṭayyin once said, “He died in the year nine,” but the first date is the sound one.

219 – al-Yazīdī, Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn al-Mubārak ibn al-Mughīrah

He was the Shaykh of the Qur’an reciters: Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn al-Mubārak ibn al-Mughīrah al-ʿAdawī, of Basra, a grammarian. He was called “al-Yazīdī” because of his close association with the emir Yazīd ibn Manṣūr, the maternal uncle of the caliph al-Mahdī, whose son he tutored.

He perfected the Qur’an under Abū ʿAmr al-Māzinī, from whom he also transmitted, as well as from Ibn Jurayj.

A great many students recited to him, among them Abū ʿUmar ad-Dūrī (1) and Abū Shuʿayb as-Sūsī (2).

Those who narrated from him include his son Muḥammad, Abū ʿUbayd, and Isḥāq al-Mawṣilī.

The transmitters who carried on from him the reading of Abū ʿAmr were his sons—Muḥammad, ʿAbd Allāh, Ibrāhīm, Ismāʿīl, and Isḥāq—together with his grandson Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, Abū Ḥamdūn al-Ṭayyib, ʿĀmir Uqiyya, Sulaymān ibn Khallād, Aḥmad ibn Jubayr, Muḥammad ibn Shujāʿ, Abū Ayyūb al-Khayyāṭ, Jaʿfar, the servant of Sajjada, and Muḥammad.