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Yahya ibn Yahya al-Tamimi

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Yahya ibn Yahya al-Tamimi
يحيى بن يحيى التميمي
Personal life
Bornafter c. 759
DiedMay c. 841
EraIslamic Golden Age
(Abbasid era)
RegionAbbasid Caliphate
Main interest(s)Hadith
OccupationIslamic scholar, Muhaddith
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHadith
Muslim leader

Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Yahya ibn Baker ibn Abdulrahman ibn Yahya ibn Hammad al-Laythi (Arabic: يحيى بن يحيى التميمي) (born: 759 / died: 841) was a prominent Islamic Sunni Muhaddith.

He was born in Nishapur in present-day northeastern Iran. He travelled to Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt and Sham to collect Hadith, and was on of the prominent students of Malik ibn Anas and Al-Layth ibn Sa'd. Among his prominent students were Muhammad al-Bukhari and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj.[1]

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