and al-Buhturī (1), the poet, and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rajāʾ al-Isfarāyinī (2).

229 – Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf, Abū Zakariyyā al-Andalusī
The Imām, leading authority of the Mālikī school, Abū Zakariyyā al-Kinānī al-Andalusī, the jurist.

Ibn al-Faraḍī said: “He travelled in search of knowledge, and in Ifriqiya he heard (hadith) from Saḥnūn, Abū Zakariyyā al-Ḥufrī, and ʿAwn ibn Yūsuf, the companion of al-Darāwardī. In Egypt he heard from Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr, Ḥarmala, and Ibn Rumḥ; and in Medina from Abū Muṣʿab and others.

He settled in Qayrawān. He was a memoriser of the subsidiary rulings (furūʿ), trustworthy, and meticulous with his books (3).

Those who transmitted from him include Aḥmad ibn Khālid the ḥāfiẓ, a number of others, and the scholars of Qayrawān. In his day students would undertake journeys to study with him.

He lived in Sūsah toward the end of his life and died there.

Al-Ḥumaydī said: “He was among the clients (mawālī) of the Banū Umayyah.” (4)

Those who narrated from him were Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān al-Aʿnāqī (5), Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr, and Muḥammad