At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Transmitter
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
Life in time
Place in the story
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
The hadith master Abu Muhammad Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'id ibn Katib al-Hashimi al-Baghdadi transmitted Ibn al-Mubarak's Kitab al-Zuhd from al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan al-Marwazi; he was born in 228 and died in Dhu al-Qa'da 318, as Ahmad Farid summarises from al-Dhahabi. 1
Teachers and students
He heard from Luwayn, Ahmad ibn Mani', the judge Sawwar ibn Abd Allah, Harun ibn Abd Allah al-Hammal and "countless" others; from him transmitted Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi, though senior to him, al-Daraqutni, Abu Tahir al-Mukhallis and many others. He had two brothers, Yusuf and Ahmad. 1
Standing
Al-Daraqutni called him "trustworthy, firm, a hadith master"; Abu Ali al-Naysaburi said none of his peers in Iraq matched his understanding; al-Khatib said he held a place in learning and wrote works on Sunna and legal rulings; al-Dhahabi said he had solid views on narrators and hidden defects. 1
His link to Kitab al-Zuhd
In al-A'zami's text Ibn Sa'id narrates the book "on Thursday, six days into Rabi' al-Awwal of the year 315, at the door of his house", while the opening of part 7 says he read it out himself at his house in Dhu al-Qa'da 309. 2 3 The book contains "additions" of his from his own teachers, not through Ibn al-Mubarak, which the editor marks, and a remark of his after the reports on Uways declaring their chains sound. 4 5
For young visitors
Ibn Sa'id was a hadith scholar of Baghdad who read Kitab al-Zuhd to his students at the door of his house, and they passed it on to those after them.
Notes for researchers
- The two dates of hearing (309 and 315) are explained by the editor in the footnote to the first report.
Connections
- Debated with
- Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani
People and things also explored
Abu al-Abbas ibn al-Nahhas al-Misri· Abu Dawud al-Sijistani· Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani· al-Tabari· Baghdad· Isfahan· Sijistan· Hadith
Sources
- Ibn al-Mubarak, al-Zuhd wa-l-Raqa'iq, ed. Ahmad Farid, vol. 1 (Dar al-Mi'raj al-Dawliyya, Riyadh 1995) , p. 100
- Ibn al-Mubarak, al-Zuhd wa-l-Raqa'iq, al-Marwazi recension, ed. Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami (scan) , p. 1
- Ibn al-Mubarak, al-Zuhd wa-l-Raqa'iq, al-Marwazi recension, ed. Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami (scan) , p. 304
- Ibn al-Mubarak, al-Zuhd wa-l-Raqa'iq, al-Marwazi recension, ed. Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami (scan) , p. 127
- Ibn al-Mubarak, al-Zuhd wa-l-Raqa'iq, al-Marwazi recension, ed. Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami (scan) , p. 294
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'id”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yahya-ibn-muhammad-ibn-saaid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-04.
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