167 – Yahya ibn Yahya ibn Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Tamimi (cited by al-Bukhari, Muslim, al-Tirmidhi, and al-Nasa’i)
He was known as Shaykh al-Islam and the leading scholar of Khurasan: Abu Zakariyya al-Tamimi al-Minqari al-Naysaburi, the hadith master.
He committed hadith to writing in his own region, as well as in the Hijaz, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt.
He met several of the younger Successors, among them Kathir ibn Sulaym—from whom he took knowledge.
His other teachers included: ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar al-Makhrami, Yazid ibn al-Miqdam, Zuhayr ibn Muʿawiyah, Malik, the judge Sharik, Suʿayr ibn al-Khums, Abu ʿAqil Yahya ibn al-Mutawakkil, Sulayman ibn Bilal, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Mawal, ʿAttaf ibn Khalid, Ibrahim ibn Saʿd, Ibn Abi al-Zinad, al-Munkadir ibn Muhammad, Dawud ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-ʿAttar, Muslim ibn Khalid, Muʿawiyah ibn ʿAbd al-Karim, Khalaf ibn Khalifah, Yazid ibn Zurayʿ, ʿAbthar ibn al-Qasim, and many others.
Among those who narrated from him were: al-Bukhari, Muslim, Humayd ibn Zanjuyah, Muhammad ibn Nasr al-Marwazi, Ahmad ibn Sayyar, ʿUthman ibn Saʿid al-Darimi, Muhammad ibn Rafiʿ al-Qushayri, Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli, his son—Yahya Haykan—, Zakariyya ibn Dawud al-Khaffaf, Muhammad ibn ʿAmr al-Jurashi, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Turk, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salam ibn Bashshar, and Ibrahim ibn ʿAli al-Dhuhli.