Yahya ibn Yahya to perform the Hajj. He therefore sought permission from the governor ʿAbd Allah ibn Tahir, who said, “You are holding fast to the firmest hand-grip of Islam, and I fear that you might be tested and fall into something blameworthy. So this is my permission, and this is my advice.” Yahya thereupon stayed where he was.

We have been informed that Yahya bequeathed the clothes that had touched his body to Ahmad ibn Hanbal. When they were delivered to Ahmad, he took one garment for its blessing and returned the rest, saying, “The cut of his clothes is not the style of our town.” (1)

Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab and others said: Yahya ibn Yahya died at the beginning of Rabiʿ al-Awwal in the year 226 AH.

Abu ʿAmr al-Mustamli said: I heard Abu Ahmad al-Farraʾ say: Zakariyya, the son of Yahya ibn Yahya, told me, “My father bequeathed his personal garments to Ahmad. I brought them to him in a bundle; he looked at them and said, ‘This is not my usual dress.’ Then he selected one robe and returned the rest.” (2)

Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab said: I heard al-Husayn ibn Mansur relate: I heard the governor ʿAbd Allah ibn Tahir say, “During Ramadan I saw in my sleep as though a scroll were lowered from heaven, and it was said to me, ‘This scroll contains the names of those who have been forgiven.’ I rose and examined it, and there I read: In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate—Yahya ibn Yahya.”

Al-Hakim said: I heard my father recount: I heard Abu ʿAmr al-ʿAmrawi, the governor of the city, say, “One night while I was sleeping on the roof-top, I saw a light rising to the sky from a grave in the Husayn cemetery, like a white minaret. I called for a servant of mine who was an archer…"