He was born in the year 182 AH.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, Abū Badr Shujāʿ ibn al-Walīd, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Maʿrūf the ascetic, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAṭāʾ, Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb, and their peers.
Among those who transmitted from him are Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī, ʿUthmān ibn al-Sammāk, Abū Sahl al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Isḥāq al-Khurāsānī, and many others.
Abū Ḥātim said, “His rank is that of a truthful one.” (1)
Al-Barqānī stated, “Al-Dāraqutnī instructed me to include narrations of Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib in the Ṣaḥīḥ.”
Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, however, said, “He is not strong.”
Mūsā ibn Hārūn declared, “I testify that he lies” (2)—meaning in ordinary speech, not in his transmissions. We ask Allah for a tongue that speaks the truth.
He was a client of the Banū Hāshim.
His higher-level isnāds reach me and my children.
He passed away in Shawwāl of the year 275 AH.
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