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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]
Afterward, Yahya returned to Damascus where he devoted his life to scholarship, particularly as a transmitter of hadith, and as an expert of Islamic law and Arabic language and rhetoric. [4] He was called sayyid ahl Dimashq (master of the Damascenes) by the historians Ibn Asakir, Abu Zur'a (d. 878) and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 1449). [ 1 ]
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Yahya underscored the key focus of the 2011 International Seminar on Islamic Law, which stressed the application of Syariah law in accordance with the sultan’s directives. He discussed the challenges of reconciling Islamic law with contemporary legal systems and emphasised the importance of public involvement in ensuring the correct ...
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
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Yahya ibn Ma'in was born in 158 (A.H.) during the caliphate of Abu Ja‘far al-Mansur to Nabataean ancestry from Al-Anbar and was raised in Baghdad. He was the oldest of a prominent group of muḥadiths (experts in ḥadīth) known as Al-Jamā'a Al-Kibār (The Great Assembly), which included Ali ibn al-Madini, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah, and Abu Khaithama.