al-Hammani Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Abd al-Hamid
الحماني أبو زكرياء يحيى بن عبد الحميد
842 CE · 228 AH
Travelling hadith memorist who came to Baghdad, first to compile a musnad in Kufa; died 228 AH (842 CE).
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
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موجز
أبو زكرياء يحيى بن عبد الحميد بن عبد الرحمن بن ميمون الحماني الكوفي، من حفاظ الحديث الرحّالين. توفي سنة 228هـ (842م). 1
سيرته
قدم بغداد وحدّث بها عن خلق كثير. وهو أول من صنّف المسند بالكوفة. 1
تاريخ وفاته مسجّل بمصدر واحد، ويحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي.
People and things also explored
The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Hammani Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Abd al-Hamid”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-hammani-abu-zakariyya-yahya-ibn-abd-al-hamid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.