139 – al-Jaṣṣāṣ, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad *
The shaykh, scholar, and preacher Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Baghdādī, known as al-Jaṣṣāṣ (1), famed for his constant supplication.
He listened to ḥadith from Abū Ḥudhāfa Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Sahmī, Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAmr al-Rabālī, Ḥumayd ibn al-Rabīʿ, ʿAlī ibn Ishkāb, ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr al-Anṣārī, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Dāraquṭnī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥinnāʾī, Ismāʿīl ibn Zanjī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ, and others.
al-Khaṭīb commented, “There is a great deal of error in his ḥadith.” (2)
He passed away in Baghdad in 331 AH.
ʿUmar ibn ʿAdhīr informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad reported to us in person; ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam informed us; Abū Naṣr ibn Ṭalāb informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad in Ṣaydā informed us, who said:
Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the preacher narrated to us; Ḥumayd ibn al-Rabīʿ narrated to us; Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿUbayda, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Recite Sūrat al-Nisāʾ to me.” I replied, “Shall I recite it to you when it was revealed to you?!” He said, “I love to hear it from someone else.” So I recited