ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī in Alexandria informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad in Baghdad informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh informed us; Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Bakkār ibn Qutaybah narrated to us; Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī narrated to us; Salīm ibn Ḥayyān narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Mīnāʾ narrated to us; Ibn al-Zubayr narrated to us; ʿĀʾishah informed me
that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said to her: “Were it not that your people have only recently left the pre-Islamic period of ignorance, I would demolish the Kaʿbah, bring it level with the ground, give it two doors—one on the east and one on the west—and add six cubits of the ḥijr (the semi-circular enclosure) to the House, for when Quraysh rebuilt it they made it smaller.” (1)
230 – Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Kathīr al-Kalbī * (S)
An imām and the leading ḥadith scholar of Harrān; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Kalbī al-Ḥarrānī, the ḥāfiẓ, nicknamed Luʾluʾ.
Ibn Nuqṭah wrote his sobriquet as Yuʾyuʾ—using two yā’s—but the first form is the sounder.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Qatādah ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wāqid, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭarāʾifī, Abū al-Yamān al-Bahrānī, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus, al-Nufaylī, and others.