Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Overview
Yusuf ibn 'Adi ibn Zurayq ibn Isma'il — also given as ibn 'Adi ibn al-Salt — the trustworthy imam and hafiz Abu Ya'qub al-Taymi of Kufa, client of Taym Allah, brother of the precise hafiz Zakariyya ibn 'Adi; he settled in Egypt and narrated there while his brother lived in Baghdad, both being from Kufa. 1
Teachers and standing
He narrated from Sharik, Abu al-Ahwas, 'Amr ibn Abi al-Miqdam, Malik ibn Anas, 'Ubaydallah ibn 'Amr al-Raqqi, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Zinad and others. He died in 230 AH or after. 2
Sources
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.4275
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.4275-4276
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Yusuf ibn Adi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yusuf-ibn-adi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.