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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]
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.
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 ]
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.
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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
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.
According to the later Zaydi sources, Yahya ibn al-Husayn was born in Medina in 859. However, it appears that he was actually born at a village (likely modern al-Dur or Dur Abi al-Qasim, some 57 kilometres (35 mi) southwest of Medina) near the wadi al-Rass, where his grandfather, al-Qasim "al-Rassi", had settled after bringing his family over from Egypt around 827. [1]