ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Khabbāf in Egypt; Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khālid al-Raqqī; Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Marwazī (1), the jurist; and Mūsā ibn Hārūn, the ḥāfiẓ (2).
223 – al-ʿAllāf, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-Miṣrī * (S (3))
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, authoritative proof, and jurist: Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb ibn Bādī, the Egyptian al-ʿAllāf.
He narrated from: Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam; ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Dawād al-Ḥarrānī; Yūsuf ibn ʿAdiyy; Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr; Aḥmad ibn Yazīd al-Makkī; and a number of others.
Narrated from him: al-Nasāʾī; Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ḥaḍramī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī; Aḥmad ibn Khālid ibn al-Jabbāb; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Wāʿiẓ; and others.
He was a dark-skinned shaykh—very dark—one-eyed, trustworthy, and well-versed in fiqh.
Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-ʿAllāf, the jurist of Egypt, narrated to us.”
I say: He died in Muḥarram of the year 289 AH, already an elderly man in his nineties.