Yahya Al Nahwi

Overview

Yahya al-Nahwi, a pupil of Sawari, and a bishop in some churches of Egypt of the Jacobite Christians. Ibn al-Nadim reports that he turned back from the doctrine of the Trinity. The bishops debated with him and prevailed over him, and asked him to return; he refused, so they removed him from his office.

He lived until the conquest of Egypt by Amr ibn al-As, went in to him, and he honoured him.

His works

He wrote the book "Refutation of Proclus" in eighteen treatises, a book "Refutation of Aristotle" in six treatises, and a book on the principle that every finite body has finite power ².

Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300

Al-Dhahabi travelled in quest of hadith: he heard at Baalbek from Ibn Khulayk ibn Ulwan and Zaynab bint Umar ibn al-Kindi, at Mecca from al-Tuzari, at Aleppo from Shawkar al-Zayni, at Nablus from al-Imad ibn Badran, at Alexandria from Abu al-Hasan al-Iraqi and Yahya al-Sawwaf, and stayed longest at Cairo under Ibn Mansur al-Ifriqi and chiefly Taqi al-Din Ibn Daqiq al-Id — until his teachers passed 1,300, whose biographies he collected in his Mu'jam. Ibn Hajar notes he produced some thirty travel parts of his own.

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Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300