and al-Khalīlī said: “His narrations transmitted from reliable authorities are an accepted proof; he also has reports that he alone relates, and his son Muḥammad is trustworthy.” (1)
30 – Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Zayd al-Ḥaḍramī * (M, D, S, Q)
He is Yaʿqūb, son of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Isḥāq, the Imām, the meticulous reciter, the ḥāfiẓ (hadith master), the Qurʾān teacher of Basra, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥaḍramī, their client, a Basran, and one of the ten canonical readers.
Birth: after 130 AH.
He studied recitation under Abū al-Mundhir Salām al-Ṭawīl, Abū al-Ashhab al-ʿAtāridī, Mahdī ibn Maymūn, and Shihāb ibn Sharnufah (2).
He also received some readings from Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt (3).
He heard a large number of narrations from Shuʿbah, Hammām (4), Abū ʿAqīl al-Dawraqī, Hārūn ibn Mūsā, Salīm ibn Ḥayyān, al-Aswad ibn Shaybān, Zāʾidah ibn Qudāmah, and several others, and he excelled in the science of hadith,
(1) Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 757.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, 7 / 304; Khalifa, al-Tabaqat, p. 227; Khalifa, al-Tarikh, p. 472; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 8 / 399–400; idem, al-Tarikh al-Saghir, 2 / 304; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 9 / 203; al-Zabidi, al-Tabaqat, p. 51; Yaqut, Muʿjam al-Udabaʾ, 20 / 52; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 6 / 390–391; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 1548; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 4 / 184 / 1; idem, al-ʿIbar, 1 / 348; idem, Maʿrifat al-Qurraʾ al-Kibar, 1 / 130; idem, al-Kashif, 3 / 290; Ibn al-Jazari, Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ, 2 / 386–389; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 11 / 382; Ibn Taghri, al-Nujum al-Zahira, 2 / 179; al-Suyuti, Bughyat al-Wuʿat, 2 / 348; Ibn ʿAbd al-Hadi, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 436; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2 / 14.
(2) The word is pronounced with a damma on the sh, a sukun on the r, and a damma on the n, as stated in Tabsir al-Muntabih, 2 / 781.
(3) His biography has already been given in volume 7 of this book, p. 90.
(4) He is Hammam b. Yahya b. Dinar al-ʿAwadhi.