ibn Masrūr, Qammūd ibn Muslim al-Qābīsī, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Qirbāṭ.
He died in 285 AH. Ibn al-Faraḍī said: He passed away in Dhul-Ḥijjah of 289 AH. (1)
Abū Bakr ibn al-Labbād said: “He was devoted to fasting and night prayer; his supplications were answered, and unmistakable signs (of divine favor) accompanied him.”
Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Abyānī remarked: “I have never seen the like of Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar in knowledge, asceticism, supplication, and weeping; by Allah, words fall short of recounting his virtues.”
Muḥammad ibn Ḥārib said: “He was pre-eminent in memorization. He met Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr and used to say, ‘I questioned Saḥnūn and found an ocean that buckets cannot muddy. By Allah, I have never seen his equal; it was as though knowledge were gathered between his eyes and lodged in his breast.’”
Yaḥyā al-Kānishī related: “Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar spent six thousand dinars in the pursuit of knowledge.”
I say: He was greatly renowned in Ifriqiya, and many people transmitted from him—may Allah have mercy on him.
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The Caliph, Abū al-ʿAbbās, Aḥmad ibn al-Muwaffaq biʾllāh, heir-apparent of his father Abū Aḥmad