Yunus ibn Yazid al-Ayli

يونس بن يزيد الأيلي

776 CE · 159 AH

Yunus ibn Yazid ibn Abi al-Nijad al-Ayli al-Qurashi, Abu Yazid, a client of Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan; the text calls him the trustworthy traditionist, and the collective of hadith compilers recorded for him. 1 He transmitted from Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Nafi' the client of Ibn Umar, al-Qasim, Ikrima and others; al-Layth ibn Sa'd, Yahya ibn Ayyub, al-Awza'i, Ibn al-Mubarak, Ibn Wahb and others transmitted from him. 1 The encyclopedia dates his death to 159 AH. 1

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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650675700725750775800825850875 c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Abu Hafs al-Kabir · Abu Nasr al-Tamar

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Yunus ibn Yazid ibn Abi al-Nijad al-Ayli al-Qurashi, Abu Yazid, a client of Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan; the text calls him the trustworthy traditionist, and the collective of hadith compilers recorded for him. 1 He transmitted from Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Nafi' the client of Ibn Umar, al-Qasim, Ikrima and others; al-Layth ibn Sa'd, Yahya ibn Ayyub, al-Awza'i, Ibn al-Mubarak, Ibn Wahb and others transmitted from him. 1 The encyclopedia dates his death to 159 AH. 1

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.16254
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