At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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In brief
Hisham b. Yusuf, judge, scholar, and mufti of Sanaa, the precise proof Abu Abd al-Rahman al-San'ani; he narrated from Ibn Jurayj, Mu'ammar, al-Qasim b. Fayyad, and others, while Ali b. al-Madini, Ibrahim b. Musa the reader, Ishaq, Ibn Ma'in, Abdallah al-Musnadi, and others narrated from him. 1
His standing
Yahya b. Ma'in said "he is more reliable than Abd al-Razzaq in Ibn Jurayj", Abu Hatim called him "reliable and precise", Ibrahim b. Musa relates that al-Thawri came to Yemen and said "find me a fast-handed scribe" — Hisham rode to him and did the writing — and Abu Zur'a said "Hisham has the soundest book of men". He died in 197 AH. 1
Sources
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.1 p.320
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Hisham ibn Yusuf al-San'ani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hisham-ibn-yusuf-al-sanani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.