and I raise my hands when I recite the qunūt, and I do not regard wiping over the turban as valid, nor do I approve performing the funeral prayer for a man who dies outside his own town—Yahyā used to declare this ḥadīth weak—nor do I deem it permissible for a man to give his daughter in marriage without a dowry, or to marry her off in exchange for the recitation of a surah—I saw Yahyā weaken these reports as well. (1)

ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿUmar ibn Ṭabarzad related to us; Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shurūṭī and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Zāghūnī both said:

ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn told us, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Harbī (2) narrated to us, ʿĪsā ibn Sulaymān al-Qurashī transmitted to us, Dāwūd ibn Rashīd recited to me, and Yahyā ibn Maʿīn recited to him:

Wealth—its lawful and its forbidden—will vanish one day,
yet tomorrow its sins will still remain. (3)
No one is truly devout toward his Lord
until his drink and his food are wholesome,
until whatever he possesses and whatever his hand earns are pure,
and his speech is comely whenever he speaks.
The Prophet spoke this to us from his Lord;
upon the Prophet be blessings and peace.

Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ said: I heard Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl al-Baghdādī say:

Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ (4) said, “I saw Abū Dāwūd speaking ill of Yahyā ibn Maʿīn, so I said to him, ‘Do you find fault with someone like Yahyā?’ He replied, ‘Whoever drags the trains of other people (5), they will drag his train.’”