al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4150
✧ Yahya b. Zakaria, Prophet of Allah, peace be upon them both.
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أَخْبَرَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَحْمَسِيُّ بِالْكُوفَةِ ثنا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنِي مَرْوَانُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنِي حُمَيْدُ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ حَدَّثَنِي مُدْرِكُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ ثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ ذَكْوَانَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ عَنْ كَعْبٍ قَالَ
«كَانَ يَحْيَى بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا سَيِّدًا وَحَصُورًا وَكَانَ لَا يَقْرَبُ النِّسَاءَ وَلَا يَشْتَهِيهِنَّ وَكَانَ شَابًّا حَسَنَ الْوَجْهِ وَالصُّورَةِ لَيَّنَ الْجَنَاحِ قَلِيلَ الشَّعْرِ قَصِيرَ الْأَصَابِعِ طَوِيلَ الْأَنْفِ أَقْرَنَ الْحَاجِبَيْنِ دَقِيقَ الصَّوْتِ كَثِيرَ الْعِبَادَةِ قَوِيًّا فِي طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ»
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Aḥmasī Bi-al-Kūfah
- al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥumayd
- Marwān b. Jaʿfar
- Ḥumayd b. Muʿādh
- Mudrik b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- al-Ḥasan b. Dhakwān
- al-Ḥasan
- Samurah
- Kaʿb
✧ Yahya b. Zakariya was a master and hasur; he did not approach women nor desire them. He was a young man, handsome of face and form, gentle of wing, with little hair, short fingers, a long nose, joined eyebrows, and a thin voice, much in worship, strong in obedience to Allah.
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- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 34 AH, also said: 32 AH, and al-Wāqidī stated it definitively, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, and more than oneكَعْب الأَحْبَارثقةعن
- a well-known Companiond. 58 AH, also said 59 AH,, also said beginning of 60 AH, also said between 55 AH and 60 AHسَمُرَةَصحابي مشهورعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes, and accused of Qadarism (qadar), and he used to practise concealment (tadlīs)d. between 141 and 150 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ ذَكْوَانَصدوق يخطئ ، ورمي بالقدر ، وكان يدلسحدثنا
- مدرك بن عبد الرحمنحدثني
- حميد بن معاذحدثني
- d. 232 AHمَرْوَانُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍحدثني
- d. 282 AH, or 283 AHالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍحدثنا
- أحمد بن محمد الأخمسيأخبرني
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
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