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- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
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Overview
Yahya ibn Ayyub, the imam, scholar, exemplar and hafiz Abu Zakariya al-Baghdadi al-Maqabiri the ascetic; he narrated from Sharik the qadi, Isma'il ibn Ja'far, 'Abbad ibn 'Abbad, 'Abdallah ibn Wahb, Hushaym ibn Bashir, Khallaf ibn Khalifa and their peers, while Muslim, Abu Dawud, Abu Zur'a, Ibn Abi'l-Dunya, Abu Ya'la al-Mawsili, Abu'l-Qasim al-Baghawi and many others narrated from him. Ahmad ibn Hanbal called him "a righteous man of calm and dignity." He died on Sunday, 12 Rabi' I, 234 AH. 1
Sources
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.4154
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Yahya ibn Ayyub al-Maqabiri”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yahya-ibn-ayyub-al-maqabiri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.