Yaqoob al-Duraqi

Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim ibn Kathir ibn Zayd ibn Aqlah al-Abdi, their client, Abu Yusuf al-Dawraqi, a Baghdad hadith master and author of a musnad; al-Taqrib grades him "trustworthy, of the tenth layer," and he died in 252 AH aged eighty-six ¹.

Ibn Hajar writes in al-Taqrib: Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim ibn Kathir ibn Zayd ibn Aqlah al-Abdi, their client, Abu Yusuf al-Dawraqi — trustworthy, of the tenth layer; he died in year two and fifty, aged eighty-six, and was among the masters of memory; the major collections narrate from him ¹. The Kashif al-Dhahabi material embedded in this edition adds: he transmitted from Hushaym and the Darawardi school, the leading authorities and al-Muhamili transmitted from him, and he authored a musnad ¹.

Al-Dawraqi was one of the hadith masters of Baghdad from whom al-Bukhari and his companions took; he compiled the narrations of his generation in a work called the Musnad, and died in 252 AH aged eighty-six on al-Taqrib's report ¹.

Ya'qub al-Dawraqi was one of the greatest hadith scholars of Baghdad; he gathered his narrations in a book called the Musnad, lived eighty-six years, and died in 252 AH.

• Taqrib al-Tahdhib, entry 7812 (Majmu'at al-kutub scan, p. 680).
• "Died year two and fifty" in the scan is completed to "two hundred" by the context and his stated age.
• He is mentioned with his brother Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Dawraqi in the kunya section of the same edition.