Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari

يحيى بن سعيد بن قيس الأنصاري

c. 760 CE · 143 AH

Medina

A Medinan jurist of the third generation who served as qadi for al-Mansur; Hammad ibn Zayd reports Ayyub saying he left no jurist more learned than Yahya ibn Sa'id.

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Jurist
Counted among
Sunni
Region
Arabia
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Life in time

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man ibn Thabit · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran · Al-Awza'i, Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr

In space

Medina

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Scripture and its sciences

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Yahya ibn Sa'id ibn Qays al-Ansari, one of the jurists of Medina of the third generation, who was a judge for Abu Ja'far al-Mansur. al-Shirazi reports, from Hammad ibn Zayd, that Ayyub said to him: "No one more learned in jurisprudence than Yahya ibn Sa'id has been left." He died in the year 143 AH according to al-Shirazi, and the Common Era date is derived 1.

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Medina
Mentioned in
Muwatta 4· Muwatta 22· Muwatta 23· Muwatta 47· Muwatta 55· Muwatta 59· Muwatta 70· Muwatta 94· Muwatta 98· Muwatta 115· Muwatta 116· Muwatta 124· Muwatta 166· Muwatta 172· Muwatta 193· Muwatta 198· Muwatta 211· Muwatta 213· Muwatta 220· Muwatta 226· Muwatta 239· Muwatta 243· Muwatta 257· Muwatta 292· Muwatta 320· Muwatta 322· Muwatta 333· Muwatta 337· Muwatta 348· Muwatta 351· Muwatta 357· Muwatta 391· Muwatta 414· Muwatta 433· Muwatta 462· Muwatta 468· Muwatta 479· Muwatta 480· Muwatta 504· Muwatta 509· Muwatta 513· Muwatta 532· Muwatta 533· Muwatta 539· Muwatta 545· Muwatta 567· Muwatta 571· Muwatta 578· Muwatta 580· Muwatta 1404· Muwatta 1409· Muwatta 1410· Muwatta 1455· Muwatta 1462· Muwatta 1477· Muwatta 1478· Muwatta 1499· Muwatta 1507· Muwatta 1517· Muwatta 1521· Muwatta 1522· Muwatta 1535· Muwatta 1548· Muwatta 1571· Muwatta 1579· Muwatta 1583· Muwatta 1588· Muwatta 1591· Muwatta 1598· Muwatta 1625· Muwatta 1634· Muwatta 1642· Muwatta 1658· Muwatta 1659· Muwatta 1664· Muwatta 1679· Muwatta 1692· Muwatta 1696· Muwatta 1703· Muwatta 1704· Muwatta 1728· Muwatta 1731· Muwatta 1734· Muwatta 1736· Muwatta 1772· Muwatta 1777· Muwatta 1780· Muwatta 1793· Muwatta 1843· Muwatta 1853· Muwatta 1869· Muwatta 1924· Muwatta 1980· Muwatta 2000· Muwatta 2001· Muwatta 597· Muwatta 598· Muwatta 610· Muwatta 623· Muwatta 626· Muwatta 636· Muwatta 2104· Muwatta 2154· Muwatta 2159· Muwatta 2201· Muwatta 2208· Muwatta 2209· Muwatta 2217· Muwatta 2230· Muwatta 2232· Muwatta 2244· Muwatta 2262· Muwatta 2267· Muwatta 2363· Muwatta 2375· Muwatta 2376· Muwatta 2382· Muwatta 2383· Muwatta 2392· Muwatta 2409· Muwatta 2432· Muwatta 2435· Muwatta 2444· Muwatta 2463· Muwatta 2473· Muwatta 2493· Muwatta 2496· Muwatta 2502· Muwatta 2511· Muwatta 2512· Muwatta 2516· Muwatta 2524· Muwatta 2528· Muwatta 2536· Muwatta 2539· Muwatta 2552· Muwatta 2564· Muwatta 680· Muwatta 690· Muwatta 715· Muwatta 2574· Muwatta 2594· Muwatta 2604· Muwatta 2610· Muwatta 2631· Muwatta 2632· Muwatta 2653· Muwatta 2668· Muwatta 2694· Muwatta 2699· Muwatta 2702· Muwatta 2710· Muwatta 2714· Muwatta 2717· Muwatta 2719· Muwatta 2731· Muwatta 2733· Muwatta 2737· Muwatta 2738· Muwatta 2750· Muwatta 2764· Muwatta 2788· Muwatta 2789· Muwatta 2790· Muwatta 2817· Muwatta 2844· Muwatta 799· Muwatta 841· Muwatta 857· Muwatta 880· Muwatta 1002· Muwatta 1008· Muwatta 1045· Muwatta 1048· Muwatta 1081· Muwatta 1100· Muwatta 1108· Muwatta 1127· Muwatta 1133· Muwatta 1167· Muwatta 1185· Muwatta 1193· Muwatta 1201· Muwatta 1221· Muwatta 1242· Muwatta 1249· Muwatta 1277· Muwatta 913· Muwatta 914· Muwatta 924· Muwatta 957· Muwatta 965· Muwatta 966· Muwatta 983· Muwatta 1287· Muwatta 1292· Muwatta 1297· Muwatta 1300· Muwatta 1320· Muwatta 1321· Muwatta 1323· Muwatta 1328· Muwatta 1330· Muwatta 1332· Muwatta 1335· Muwatta 1337· Muwatta 1338· Muwatta 1339· Muwatta 1340· Muwatta 1343· Muwatta 1344· Muwatta 1358· Muwatta 1364· Muwatta 1380· Muwatta 1390· Muwatta 1391

People and things also explored

Malik ibn Anas· Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Salah (the prescribed prayer)· Aisha bint Abi Bakr· Muhammad· Muwatta, Book of Miscellaneous (al-jami')

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)
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