Name:
إبراهيم بن محمد بن أبى يحيى : سمعان
الأسلمى مولاهم ، أبو إسحاق المدنى ، و قيل إبراهيم بن محمد بن أبى عطاء
Ibraaheem
bin Muhammad bin Abi Yahya: Sama’aan al-Aslami, their Mawla, Abu Ishaaq
al-Madani, and it is said he is Ibraaheem bin Muhammad bin Abi Ataa.
Tabaqah: 7
– From the major Taba Taabi’een
Death: 184
or 191 Hijri.
Narrated by:
Ibn Maajah
Teachers:
Ishaaq bin Abdullah bin Abi Talhah, Al-Haarith bin Fudayl, Dawood bin
al-Husain, Suhayl bin Abi Saalih, Saalih bin Nabhaan, Safwaan bin Saleem,
Abbaas bin Abdur Rahmaan, Abdullah bin Deenaar, Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Aqeel,
al-‘Alaa bin Abdur Rahmaan, Layth bin Abi Sulaym, Ibn Shihaab az-Zuhri,
Muhammad bin Abi Yahya al-Aslami, Yahya bin Sa’eed al-Ansaari and others.
Students:
Ibraaheem bin Tahmaan, Sa’eed bin Hakam bin Abi Maryam, Sufyaan bin Bishr
al-Koofi, Sufyaan ath-Thawree, Saalih bin Muhammad at-Tirmidhi, Abdur Rahmaan bin
Saalih al-Azdi, Abdur Razzaaq bin Hammaam as-Sana’aani, Muhammad bin Idrees
ash-Shaafi’ee, Yahya bin Aadam and others.
Status:
Severely Weak – Kadhaab – Fabricator of Hadeeth.
Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh wat Ta’deel:
Those who criticized him:
1- Bishr bin Umar said: “(Imaam)
Maalik bin Anas forbade us from Ibraaheem bin Abi Yahya”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Ukaylee: 1/62 T. 59, Chain Saheeh]
Imaam Maalik
further said: “He is nothing in hadeeth”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Ukaylee: 1/62 T. 59, Chain Saheeh]
Yahya ibn
Sa’eed al-Qattaan also narrated from Imaam Maalik, and said, I asked Imaam
Maalik about Ibraaheem bin Abi Yahya whether he was thiqah in hadeeth or not?
Imaam Maalik said: “No (he is not thiqah), and
neither is he thiqah in his deen”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Ukaylee: 1/62 T. 59]
2- Imaam Abdullah bin al-Mubaarak abandoned him and said that he
used to commit tadlees.
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Ukaylee: 1/62 T. 59, Chain Saheeh]
3- Imaam Bishr bin al-Mufaddal said: “I
asked the Fuqaha of Madeenah about Ibraaheem bin Abi Yahya, and they all said
that he is Kadhaab or similar words”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel: 2/126]
4- Imaam Yahya bin Sa’eed al-Qattaan said: “We have accused him of lying i.e. Ibraaheem bin Abi
Yahya”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Ukaylee: 1/62 T. 59, Chain Saheeh]
At another
place, he said: “Ibraaheem bin Abi Yahya is a
Kadh-dhaab”
[Al-Kaamil:
1/353]
5- Imaam Ali bin Abdullah al-Madeeni said: “He is Kadh-dhaab, and speaks (the views of) al-Qadr”
[Su’aalaat Ibn
Abi Shaybah: 1/124 T. 153]
6- Imaam Abdullah bin Ahmed asked Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal about
Ibraaheem bin Muhammad bin Abi Yahya, so he said: “People
have abandoned his ahadeeth, and he is a Qadri”
[Al-Ilal wa
Ma’rifat ur-Rijaal by Ahmed narrated by his son: 2/503 T. 3317]
Imaam Ahmed
also said: “He is Qadri, Jahmi, and every evil
is in him i.e. Ibraaheem bin Abi Yahya”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Ukaylee: 1/62 T. 59, Chain Saheeh]
7- Imaam Yahya bin Ma’een said: “Ibraaheem
bin Abi Yahya is a Raafidi Qadari” and he also said: “Ibraaheem bin Abi Yahya
is Kadhaab (Liar), and a Raafidi, Qadari”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Ukaylee: 1/62 T. 59, Chain Saheeh]
At another
place, he said: “He is a Kadh-dhaab; there is no
doubt in that”
[Taareekh Asma
ud-Du’afaa wal Matrokeen: 1/47, Chain Saheeh]
8- Abdullah bin Abdur Rahmaan as-Samarqandi said: “I heard (Imaam) Yazeed bin Haaroon declaring Khaalid
bin Makhdooj, Ziyaad bin Maymoon, and Ibraaheem bin Abi Yahya to be liars.”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Ukaylee: 1/62 T. 59, Chain Saheeh]
9- Imaam Muhammad bin Ismaa’eel al-Bukhaari weakened him by
mentioning him in his book of weak narrators and said: “He is inclined towards Qadr, Yahya bin Sa’eed said: Ibn
al-Mubaarak abandoned him. Muhammad bin Ismaa’eel narrated to us, Ibn
al-Muthanna narrated to us, Bishr bin Umar narrated to us, he said: ‘Maalik prohibited
us to narrate from Ibraaheem bin Muhammad bin Abi Yahya, I asked: Do you
prohibit us from him due to Qadr? He (Maalik) replied: He is nothing in his
Deen’”
[Ad-Du’afa
as-Sagheer: 1/22]
10-
Imaam Abu Dawood
as-Sijistaani is reported to have said: “Ibraaheem
bin Abi Yahya is Qadri, Raafidi, and a Kadhaab (Liar)”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Ukaylee: 1/62 T. 59, Chain Weak]
This saying,
however, is not proven from Imaam Abu Dawood as the narrator Zakariyyah bin
Yahya al-Hulwaani is Majhool ul-Haal.
11-
Imaam Ya’qoob bin
Sufyaan al-Faarsi said: “He is Matrook Mahjoor (discarded)”
[Al-Ma’rifah
wal Taareekh: 3/138]
At another
place, he said: “He is Jahmi, Qadari, Mu’tazali,
Raafidi, attributed towards Kadhib (Lying)”
[Al-Ma’rifah:
3/55]
12-
Imaam Abu Zur’ah
ar-Raazi mentioned him in his book of weak narrators.
[Ad-Du’afa by
Abu Zur’ah: 2/598 T. 8]
Imaam Abu
Zur’ah also said: “He is nothing”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel: 1/127]
13-
Imaam Abu Haatim
ar-Raazi said: “He is Kadhaab, Matrook ul-Hadeeth;
Ibn al-Mubaarak abandoned his narration”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel: 2/126]
14-
Imaam Ibn Sa’d said: “Abandon his narrations, do not write them”
[Tabaqaat
al-Kubra: 5/493]
15-
Imaam Nasaa’ee
mentioned him in his book of weak narrators and said: “He is Matrook ul-Hadeeth”
[Ad-Du’afaa
wal Matrokeen: 1/11]
16-
Imaam Abu Ja’far al-Ukaylee
mentioned him in ad-Du’afa
[1/62 T. 59]
17-
Imaam Abu Ahmed
al-Haakim said in his book “Al-Kunaa” that: “He
is Dhaahib ul-Hadeeth (wasted in hadeeth)”
[Al-Kunaa by
Abu Ahmed with reference from Ikmaal Tahdheeb al-Kamaal: 1/284]
18-
Imaam Ibn al-Jaarood
mentioned him in his Kitaab ad-Du’afa and said: “He
is not Thiqah, Kadh-dhaab, Raafidi”
[Kitaab ad-Du’afa
by Ibn al-Jaarood with reference from Ikmaal Tahdheeb al-Kamaal: 1/287]
19-
Imaam Abu Hafs Ibn
Shaaheen mentioned him in Taareekh Asmaa ad-Du’afa wal Kadh-dhaabeen
[1/47]
20-
Imaam Abu Ya’la
al-Khaleeli said: “He is Matrook ul-Hadeeth”
[Al-Irshaad by
al-Khaleeli with reference from Ikmaal Tahdheeb al-Kamaal: 1/286]
21-
Imaam Ibn Hibbaan criticized
him in detail in Al-Majroheen [1/106]
22-
Imaam Daaraqutni
mentioned him in his book of weak narrators.
[Ad-Du’afaa
wal Matrokeen: 1/250]
Ad-Daaraqutni
also mentioned him in al-Sunan and said: “He is
Matrook ul-Hadeeth”
[4/156 H. 3259]
23-
Imaam Bayhaqi said: “Majority of the People of Knowledge have weakened him in
hadeeth”
[Al-Sunan
al-Kubra: 1/249]
24-
Imaam Ibn Abdul Barr
al-Andalusi said: “He is Matrook”
[24/377]
25-
Haafidh Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi
said: “He is Kadhaab (Liar)”
[Al-Muhalla:
3/133]
26-
Muhammad bin Taahir
al-Maqdisi said: “This Ibraaheem is Kadhaab
(Liar)”
[Tadhkirat
ul-Huffaadh: 1/357]
27-
Imaam Nawawi said: “He is Da’eef according to the Consensus”
[Majmoo Sharh
al-Muhadhdhab: 1/87]
28-
Haafidh Ibn al-Jawzee criticized
him in al-Mawdoo’aat [3/217] and he also said: “He
is not Thiqah”
[Ad-Du’afa wal
Matrokeen: 1/51]
29-
Imaam Dhahabi said: “A group (of Muhadditheen) has abandoned and weakened
him”
[Al-Mughni fi
Du’afa: 1/23]
30-
Haafidh Ibn Rajab
al-Hanbali said: “Many have accused him of
lying”
[Sharh Ilal
al-Tirmidhi: 2/563]
And he also
said: “He is severely weak”
[Fath ul-Baari
by Ibn Rajab: 8/461]
31-
Noor ud-Deen Ibn Iraaqi
al-Kinaani said: “He is a Fabricator of hadeeth”
[Tanzeeh
ush-Sharee’ah: 1/24]
32-
Haafidh Ibn Hajar said:
“He is Famous for his weakness”
[Al-Isaabah fi
Tamiyeez as-Sahaabah: 4/136]
Ibn Hajar also
said: “He is weakened by the Jumhoor”
[Tabaqaat
ul-Mudalliseen: 5/129]
And in
al-Taqreeb, Ibn Hajar said: “He is Matrook”
[241]
33-
Badr ud-Deen al-Aynee
al-Hanafi said: “He is weakened by the Jumhoor”
[Umdat
ul-Qaari: 11/82]
34-
Al-Sakhaawi said: “He is Da’eef according to the consensus of Muhadditheen”
[Fath
ul-Mugheeth: 4/360]
35-
Jalaal ud-Deen Suyooti
said: “He is Matrook”
[Al-Aali
al-Masnoo’ah fil ahadeeth al-Mawdoo’ah: 2/344]
36-
Al-Shawkaani said: “He is Da’eef”
[Nayl al-Awtaar:
1/328]
Those who praised him:
1- Imaam Ash-Shaafi’ee said: “He is
Thiqah in Hadeeth”
[Al-Kaamil:
1/357, Chain Saheeh]
2- Imaam Ibn Adee said: “I looked
deep into his narrations and investigated every single of them, and I did not
find any Munkar narration in them…. And he is among those whose narrations are
written down. Ash-Shaafi’ee and Ibn al-Asbahaani etc have authenticated him”
[Al-Kaamil:
1/367]
Conclusion:
Ibraaheem bin Muhammad bin Abi
Yahya is Kadh-dhaab and Matrook in hadeeth
