Al-Dāraquṭnī was asked about him and said, “He is reliable—indeed, a degree above reliable.”
Aḥmad ibn al-Munādī added, “People recorded traditions from him because of his trustworthiness and piety.”
He died on the Day of Eid al-Aḍḥā in the year 292 AH, at the age of ninety-three.
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Faqīh related to us in his book: ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Abū Ghālib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Jawharī narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us; Idrīs ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm the Qurʾān-reciter told us; ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī told us; Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ told us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān, from ʿIkrima, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
“Allah chose Abraham for intimate friendship (khulla), chose Moses for direct speech, and chose Muhammad—may Allah bless him and them both—for the vision.” (1)
18 – Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yaḥyā, Abū al-Qāsim al-Adhanī*
A meticulous hadith scholar, Abū al-Qāsim al-Adhanī.
He narrated from his father, from Luwayn, al-Musayyab ibn Wāḍiḥ, Muʾammal ibn Ihāb, Muḥammad ibn Wazīr, Abū ʿUmayr ibn al-Naḥḥās, and others of their circle.