Sunan Ibn Majah 3738

Translation

"Why are you called Abu Yahya when you do not have a son?" He said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave me the Kunya of Abu Yahya."

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 24500Musnad Ahmad 24503al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7336Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26815

Narrators

1. 1
   Ṣuhayb b. Sinān al-Rūmī

   Famous Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 38 AH, in Ibn al-Athīr's book: 39 AH
   صُهَيْبُ بْنُ سِنَانَ الرُّومِيُّصحابي شهير
   أن
2. 2
   Ḥamzah b. Ṣuhayb

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   حَمْزَةَ بْنِ صُهَيْبٍمقبول.
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl b. Abī Ṭālib

   Truthful (ṣadūq), with some laxity (layyin) in his hadith; it is said that his memory changed towards the end of his life.d. after 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 145 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍصدوق في حديثه لين ، ويقال : تغير بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Zuhayr b. Muḥammad

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that the narrations of the people of Syria from him are not sound (ghayr mustaqīmah), and he was therefore declared weak (ḍuʿʿifa) because of them.d. 162 AH
   زُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة ، إلا أن رواية أهل الشام عنه غير مستقيمة ، فضعف بسببها
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyā b. Abī Bukayr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, also said 209 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي بُكَيْرٍثقة .
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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