Yaḥya ibn Maʻin

Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn (Arabic: يحيى بن معين‎) was a classical Islamic scholar[3] of Persian[8] origin.

Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn
Born158 AH [1]
Baghdad [2]
Died233 AH [3][4]
EraMedieval era
SchoolHanafi [5]

He was a close friend of Ahmad ibn Hanbal and is often quoted regarding Ilm ar-Rijal.[9] 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.[10]

His teachers included; Ibn al-Mubārak, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿIyāsh, ‘Abād ibn ‘Abād, Sufyān ibn ʿUyainah, Gundur, Abū Muʿāwiyyah, Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl, Ḥafṣ ibn Giyāth, Jarīr ibn ʿAbdul-Ḥamīd, ‘Abd ur-Ruzzāq, Wakī’ and many others from Irāq, Ḥijāz, Jazīrah, Shām and Miṣr.[11]

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.[12]

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.[13]. 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[14]

His works were not limited to mere approbations and disapprobation of narrators albeit a science he was a master in, or narrating of aḥādīth,[15] rather, he progressed forward as an author writing many books, many of which are not found today,[16] despite him formally writing as an author at the age of twenty.[17] Of the books available today are; Ma’rifatul al-Rijāl,[18] Tārīkh ʿUthmān bin Saʿīd al-Dārimī, Yaḥyā bin Maʿīn wa Kitābuhu ‘l-Tārīkh and a small treatise titled ‘Min Kalām Abī Zakariyyā Yaḥyā bin Maʿīn fi ‘l-Rijāl’.

References
  1. "مناهج أئمة الجرح والتعديل". Ibnamin.com. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
  2. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib
  3. "Muslim American Society". Masnet.org. 2003-10-09. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
  4. "USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts". Usc.edu. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
  5. "Abu Bakrah and the Feminists". Abc.se. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
  6. "IslamWeb". IslamWeb. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
  7. 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.
  8. 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)
  9. "Rijal: narrators of the Muwatta of Imam Muhammad". Bogvaerker.dk. 2005-01-08. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
  10. Ibn al-Jawzi, The Life of Ibn Hanbal, pg. 45. Trns. Michael Cooperson. New York: New York University Press, 2016. ISBN 9781479805303
  11. Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, Vol 11, pg. 72. Al-Kamāl fī Asmā' al-Rijāl, Vol. 31, pg. 544 – 546
  12. 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
  13. Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 5. Tārīkh Bagdād, Vol 16, pg. 265
  14. Maʿrifatul al-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 7 – 8.
  15. Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 16
  16. Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 6
  17. Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, Vol 11, pg. 77
  18. Ma’rifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 16


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