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For this reason, Yahya is a comparatively common name in the Muslim world. The related Biblical name of Jehiah ( Hebrew : יְחִיָּה , romanized : Yəḥiyā , lit. 'Yahweh lives') has the Arabic form Yaḥiyyā (Arabic: يَحِيَّى )., [ 1 ] with the exact Arabic consonantal text as the name Yahya.
In Islam, Yahya greeted Muhammad on the night of the Al-Isra al-Mi'raj, along with Isa (Jesus), on the second heaven. [22] Yahya's story was also told to the Abyssinian king during the Muslim migration to Abyssinia. [23] According to the Qur'an, Yahya was one on whom God sent peace on the day that he was born and the day that he died. [24]
* Yasu' is the Arab Christian name, while ʿĪsā is the Muslim version of the name, as used in the Qur'an. There is debate as to which is the better rendition of the Aramaic Ishuʿ, because both names are of late origin. ** Yuhanna is the Arab Christian name of John, while Yahya is the Muslim version of the name, as used in the Qur'an.
Muslim tradition narrates that Zakariya was ninety-two years old [3] when he was told of John's birth. In accordance with Zakariya's prayer, God made John (Yahya) renew the message of God, which had been corrupted and lost by the Israelites. [ 4 ]
Yahya may refer to: Yahya (name), a common Arabic male given name; Yahya (Zaragoza), 11th-century ruler of Zaragoza; Yahya of Antioch / Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Antaki / Yaḥya ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī, 11th century Christian Arabic historian. John the Baptist in Islam, also known as Yaḥyā ibn Zakarīyā
Hamas started as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1987. Its name means Islamic Resistance Movement. It is opposed to the existence of Israel on what it says is Palestinian land.
Abu Muhammad Yahya ibn Yahya ibn Kathir ibn Wislasen ibn Shammal ibn Mangaya al-Laythi (Arabic: يحيى بن يحيى الليثي) (born: 769 / died: 848), better known as Yahya ibn Yahya, was a prominent Andalusian Muslim scholar. He was responsible for spreading the Maliki school of jurisprudence in Al-Andalus.
Yahya was a great-great-grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the son-in-law of Muhammad and first Shi'a imam.His mother, Qurayba bint Rukayh, was one of the wives of his father, and niece of the mother of his half-brothers, Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya and Ibrahim.