Yahya ibn Ma'in

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Yahya ibn Ma'in
يحيى بن معين
Title
  • Malik al-Huffaz (the king of the memorizers of hadith)
  • Shaykh al-Muhaddithin (the teacher of the hadith experts)
Personal
Born774
Ilm al-Rijal
Muslim leader
Teacher
Students
Influenced by
  • Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak
Influenced

Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn (

Islamic scholar in the field of hadith.[8] He was a close friend of Ahmad ibn Hanbal
for much of his life. Ibn Ma'in is known to have spent all of his inheritance on seeking hadith to the extent he became extremely needy.

Biography

Professional life

He was born in 158 (A.H.) in the caliphate of

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]

Academic career

Yahya sought knowledge by means of various journeys which he made so rigorously that after the passing of his father, he spent all of his 1,050,000 inherited dirhams on seeking ḥadīth to the extent that nothing remained - not even enough purchase a pair of shoes.[11] His journey of seeking knowledge of hadith and Islamic rulings caused him to travel to Basrah, Bagdād, Harān, Dimasq, al-Rasāfah, al-Ray, Sanʿā’, Kufā, Egypt and Mecca[12] His works were not limited to mere approbations and disapprobation of narrators albeit being a master of his science, or narrating of aḥādīth;[13] rather, he progressed forward as an author writing many books, although many are no longer extant,[14] despite his formally writing as an author from the age of twenty.[15] Of the books available today are; Ma’rifatul al-Rijāl,[16] Yaḥyā bin Maʿīn wa Kitābuhu ‘l-Tārīkh and a small treatise titled ‘Min Kalām Abī Zakariyyā Yaḥyā bin Maʿīn fi ‘l-Rijāl’.

His teachers included

‘Abd ur-Ruzzāq Sanani, Wakī’ and many others from Irāq, Ḥijāz, Jazīrah, Shām and Miṣr.[17]

His famous students included Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal, Muḥammad bin Sʿad, Abū Khaithamah, al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, ʿAbbās al-Dawrī, Abū Ḥātim and many more.[18]

Together with Ibn Saʿd and five others, he was ordered in 218/833 by al-Maʾmūn to profess the createdness of the Quran. T̲h̲reatened with death, they complied and the event was well publicised (al-Ṭabarī, volume 3, 1116). Ibn Ḥanbal never spoke to him subsequently. However there are reports he repented to him personally at the end of his life, with Ibn Hanbal forgiving him and back to being on speaking terms. He reputedly exposed many traditions as false and is regarded as one of the most critical early experts on rid̲j̲āl. He reportedly left behind a huge library.[19]

References

  1. ^ "مناهج أئمة الجرح والتعديل". Ibnamin.com. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
  2. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib
  3. ISBN 90-04-10952-8
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  4. ^ "Muslim American Society". Masnet.org. 2003-10-09. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
  5. ^ "USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts". Usc.edu. 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. ^ "Mengenal Yahya Bin Ma'in, Ahli Hadis yang Wafat Ditemani Ribuan Kitab". Arrahmah.com (in Indonesian). 2021-08-20. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  9. ^ "Rijal: narrators of the Muwatta of Imam Muhammad". Bogvaerker.dk. 2005-01-08. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
  10. ISBN 9781479805303
  11. ^ Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 5. Tārīkh Bagdād, Vol 16, pg. 265
  12. ^ Maʿrifatul al-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 7 – 8.
  13. ^ Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 16
  14. ^ Maʿrifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 6
  15. ^ Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, Vol 11, pg. 77
  16. ^ Ma’rifatul ‘l-Rijāl, Vol 1, pg. 16
  17. ^ Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, Vol 11, pg. 72. Al-Kamāl fī Asmā' al-Rijāl, Vol. 31, pg. 544 – 546
  18. ^ 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
  19. ^ Leemhuis, F. (2012-04-24), "Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Brill, retrieved 2023-06-27

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