Yahya ibn Ma'in

Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn
Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn
Personal
Born	774; Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Died	847 (aged 72–73); Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic golden age
Region	Abbasid Caliphate
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Main interest(s)	Jurisprudence and Hadith anthology.
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Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn (Arabic: يحيى بن معين‎) was a classical Islamic scholar of Persian origin.^[5]^[9]

He was a close friend of Ahmad ibn Hanbal and is often quoted regarding Ilm ar-Rijal.^[10] Alongside Ibn Hanbal, Ali ibn al-Madini and Ibn Abi Shaybah, Ibn Ma'in has been considered by many Muslim specialists in hadith to be one of the four most significant authors in the field.^[11]

His teachers included; Abdullah Ibn al-Mubārak, , , Sufyān ibn ʿUyainah, Gundur, Abū Muʿāwiyyah, Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl, Ḥafṣ ibn Giyāth, Jarīr ibn ʿAbdul-Ḥamīd, ‘Abd ur-Ruzzāq Sanani, Wakī’ and many others from Irāq, Ḥijāz, Jazīrah, Shām and Miṣr.^[12]

From amongst his students were; Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal, Muḥammad bin Sʿad, Abū Khaithamah, al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, ʿAbbās al-Dawrī, Abū Ḥātim, and many others.^[13]

Yahya seeking knowledge by the various journeys he made rigorously to the point that after the passing of his father he inherited 1,050,000 dirhams. He spent it all towards seeking ḥadīth to the extent that nothing remained to even purchase a pair of shoes.^[14] His journey for seeking the knowledge of hadith & Islamic Ruling caused him to travel to Basrah, Bagdād, Harān, Dimasq, al-Rasāfah, al-Ray, Sanʿā’, Kufā, Egypt and Mecca^[15]

His works were not limited to mere approbations and disapprobation of narrators albeit a science he was a master in, or narrating of aḥādīth,^[16] rather, he progressed forward as an author writing many books, many of which are not found today,^[17] despite him formally writing as an author at the age of twenty.^[18] Of the books available today are; Ma’rifatul al-Rijāl,^[19] Yaḥyā bin Maʿīn wa Kitābuhu ‘l-Tārīkh and a small treatise titled ‘Min Kalām Abī Zakariyyā Yaḥyā bin Maʿīn fi ‘l-Rijāl’.

References[]

^ "مناهج أئمة الجرح والتعديل". Ibnamin.com. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
^ Tahdhib al-Tahdhib
^ Soroni, Mohd Khafidz. "Sumbangan Ulama Mazhab Hanafi dalam Pembukuan ‘Ulum Al-Hadith." HADIS 8.16 (2018): 40-62. "Imam Yahya bin Ma‘in (w. 233H)Beliau merupakan imam al-Jarh wa al-Ta‘dilkerana kepakarannya tentang perawi-perawi hadis(al-Zirikli 1998: 8/172). Al-Hafiz al-Dhahabi menyebutnya sebagai bermazhab Hanafi (al-Dhahabi 1985: 11/ 88). Beliau telah menyusun berkaitan kedudukan perawi-perawi hadis, kitab al-Tarikh wa al-‘Ilal, kitabMa‘rifah al-Rijal dan kitabal-Kuna wa al-Asma’."
^ Abasoomar, Muhammad; Abasoomar, Haroon. "The Great Hanafi Muhaddithun". Hadith Answers.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Muslim American Society". Masnet.org. 2003-10-09. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
^ "USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts". Usc.edu. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
^ "IslamWeb". IslamWeb. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
^ Al-Bastawī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlīm ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm (1990). Al-Imām al-Jūzajānī wa-manhajuhu fi al-jarḥ wa-al-taʻdīl. Maktabat Dār al-Ṭaḥāwī. p. 9.
^ Frye, ed. by R.N. (1975). The Cambridge history of Iran (Repr. ed.). London: Cambridge U.P. p. 471. ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
^ "Rijal: narrators of the Muwatta of Imam Muhammad". Bogvaerker.dk. 2005-01-08. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
^ Ibn al-Jawzi, The Life of Ibn Hanbal, pg. 45. Trns. Michael Cooperson. New York: New York University Press, 2016. ISBN 9781479805303
^ Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, Vol 11, pg. 72. Al-Kamāl fī Asmā' al-Rijāl, Vol. 31, pg. 544 – 546
^ Tārīkh Bagdād, Vol 16, pg. 263. Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, Vol 11, pg. 72. Tahzīb Al-Kamāl fī Asmā' al-Rijāl, Vol. 31, pg. 546
^ Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 5. Tārīkh Bagdād, Vol 16, pg. 265
^ Maʿrifatul al-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 7 – 8.
^ Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 16
^ Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 6
^ Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, Vol 11, pg. 77
^ Ma’rifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 16

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[ibnamin-1] "مناهج أئمة الجرح والتعديل". Ibnamin.com. Retrieved 2010-04-10.

[2] Tahdhib al-Tahdhib

[3] Soroni, Mohd Khafidz. "Sumbangan Ulama Mazhab Hanafi dalam Pembukuan ‘Ulum Al-Hadith." HADIS 8.16 (2018): 40-62. "Imam Yahya bin Ma‘in (w. 233H)Beliau merupakan imam al-Jarh wa al-Ta‘dilkerana kepakarannya tentang perawi-perawi hadis(al-Zirikli 1998: 8/172). Al-Hafiz al-Dhahabi menyebutnya sebagai bermazhab Hanafi (al-Dhahabi 1985: 11/ 88). Beliau telah menyusun berkaitan kedudukan perawi-perawi hadis, kitab al-Tarikh wa al-‘Ilal, kitabMa‘rifah al-Rijal dan kitabal-Kuna wa al-Asma’."

[4] Abasoomar, Muhammad; Abasoomar, Haroon. "The Great Hanafi Muhaddithun". Hadith Answers.

[masnet-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Muslim American Society". Masnet.org. 2003-10-09. Retrieved 2010-04-10.

[6] "USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts". Usc.edu. Retrieved 2010-04-10.

[7] "IslamWeb". IslamWeb. Retrieved 2010-04-10.

[8] Al-Bastawī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlīm ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm (1990). Al-Imām al-Jūzajānī wa-manhajuhu fi al-jarḥ wa-al-taʻdīl. Maktabat Dār al-Ṭaḥāwī. p. 9.

[9] Frye, ed. by R.N. (1975). The Cambridge history of Iran (Repr. ed.). London: Cambridge U.P. p. 471. ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

[10] "Rijal: narrators of the Muwatta of Imam Muhammad". Bogvaerker.dk. 2005-01-08. Retrieved 2010-04-10.

[11] Ibn al-Jawzi, The Life of Ibn Hanbal, pg. 45. Trns. Michael Cooperson. New York: New York University Press, 2016. ISBN 9781479805303

[12] Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, Vol 11, pg. 72. Al-Kamāl fī Asmā' al-Rijāl, Vol. 31, pg. 544 – 546

[13] Tārīkh Bagdād, Vol 16, pg. 263. Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, Vol 11, pg. 72. Tahzīb Al-Kamāl fī Asmā' al-Rijāl, Vol. 31, pg. 546

[14] Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 5. Tārīkh Bagdād, Vol 16, pg. 265

[15] Maʿrifatul al-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 7 – 8.

[16] Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 16

[17] Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 6

[18] Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, Vol 11, pg. 77

[19] Ma’rifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 16

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Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn
Personal
Born	774^[1] Baghdad,^[2] Abbasid Caliphate
Died	847 (aged 72–73)^[5]^[6] Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic golden age
Region	Abbasid Caliphate
Jurisprudence	Hanafi^[3]^[4]
Main interest(s)	Jurisprudence and Hadith anthology.
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show Influenced by Abū Ḥanīfah, Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak
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