A voice in the chain
يحيى بن آدم الأموي
يحيى بن آدم بن سليمان
Appears in 178 hadith across the six canonical collections.
An abridged path through the isnād
From the Prophet ﷺ to the written books
مُحَمَّد ﷺ
The Messenger
Immediate teacher layer
Received from
يحيى بن آدم الأموي
Selected narrator
Immediate student layer
Passed onward to
Preserved in the six books
صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari
17
صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
40
سنن أبي داود
Sunan Abi Dawud
24
جامع الترمذي
Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi
27
سنن النسائي
Sunan an-Nasa’i
48
سنن ابن ماجه
Sunan Ibn Majah
22
Historical scholarship
Classical assessments
Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani
ثقة حافظ فاضل
Al-Dhahabi
أحد الأعلام
Life & identity
Biographical notes
- Kunya
- أبو زكريا
- Lineage / nisba
- القرشي ، الأموي مولاهم ، الكوفى
- Generation
- التاسعة
- Died
- 203 هـ
- Lived in
- الكوفة
- Died in
- فم الصلح
- Relatives
- مولى خالد بن خالد بن عقبة بن أبي معيط
Teachers in the transmission
Received from
Students in the transmission
Passed onward to
The written record
Hadith in this narrator’s chain
Bukhari · 252كَانَ يَكْفِي مَنْ هُوَ أَوْفَى مِنْكَ شَعَرًا وَخَيْرٌ مِنْكَWhile I and my father were with Jabir bin 'Abdullah, some people asked him about taking a bath. He replied, "A Sa' of water is sufficient for you." A man said, "A Sa' is not sufficient for me." Jabir said, "A Sa' was suf6 narratorsBukhari · 2526حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ ابْنُ أَبِي رَجَاءٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ ، حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ ، سَمِعْتُ قَتَادَةَ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنِي النَّضْرُ بْنُ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ، عَنْ بَشِيرِ بْنِ نَهِيكThat the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Whoever frees his portion of a (common) slave."7 narratorsBukhari · 2780خَرَجَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي سَهْمٍ مَعَ تَمِيمٍ الدَّارِيِّ ، وَعَدِيِّ بْنِ بَدَّاءٍ ، فَمَاتَ السَّهْمِيُّ بِأَرْضٍ لَيْسَ بِهَا مُسْلِمٌ ، فَلَمَّا قَدِمَا بِتَرِكَتِهِ فَقَدُوا جَامًا مِنْ فِضَّةٍ مُخَوَّصًا مِنْ ذَهَبٍ106)7 narratorsBukhari · 2856يَا مُعَاذُ هَلْ تَدْرِي حَقَّ اللَّهِ عَلَى عِبَادِهِ وَمَا حَقُّ الْعِبَادِ عَلَى اللَّهِ ؟ ، قُلْتُ : اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ ، قَالَ : فَإِنَّ حَقَّ اللَّهِ عَلَى الْعِبَادِ أَنْ يَعْبُدُوهُ ، وَلَا يُشْرِكُوا بI was a companion rider of the Prophet (ﷺ) on a donkey called 'Ufair. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked, "O Mu`adh! Do you know what Allah's right on His slaves is, and what the right of His slaves on Him is?" I replied, "Allah and 6 narratorsBukhari · 3023بَعَثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَهْطًا مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ إِلَى أَبِي رَافِعٍ فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَتِيكٍ بَيْتَهُ لَيْلًا ، فَقَتَلَهُ وَهُوَ نَائِمٌAllah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent a group of the Ansar to Abu Rafi`. `Abdullah bin Atik entered his house at night and killed him while he was sleeping.6 narratorsBukhari · 3182أَلَسْنَا عَلَى الْحَقِّ وَهُمْ عَلَى الْبَاطِلِ ؟ فَقَالَ :We were in Siffin and Sahl bin Hunaif got up and said, "O people! Blame yourselves! We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) on the day of Hudaibiya, and if we had been called to fight, we would have fought. But `Umar bin Al Khatab 7 narratorsBukhari · 3317وُقِيَتْ شَرَّكُمْ كَمَا وُقِيتُمْ شَرَّهَاOnce we were in the company of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in a cave. Surat-al-Mursalat (77) was revealed there, and we were learning it from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) . Suddenly a snake came out of its hole and we rushed towards 21 narrators·parallel chainBukhari · 3520عَمْرُو بْنُ لُحَيِّ بْنِ قَمَعَةَ بْنِ خِنْدِفَ أَبُو خُزَاعَةَAllah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "`Amr bin Luhai bin Qam'a bin Khindif was the father of Khuza`a.'6 narratorsBukhari · 3629ابْنِي هَذَا سَيِّدٌ وَلَعَلَّ اللَّهَ أَنْ يُصْلِحَ بِهِ بَيْنَ فِئَتَيْنِ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَOnce the Prophet (ﷺ) brought out Al-Hasan and took him up the pulpit along with him and said, "This son of mine is a Saiyid (i.e. chief) and I hope that Allah will help him bring about reconciliation between two Muslim g6 narratorsBukhari · 4038بَعَثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَهْطًا إِلَى أَبِي رَافِعٍ , فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَتِيكٍ بَيْتَهُ لَيْلًا وَهُوَ نَائِمٌ فَقَتَلَهُAllah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent a group of persons to Abu Rafi`. `Abdullah bin Atik entered his house at night, while he was sleeping, and killed him.6 narratorsBukhari · 4110الْآنَ نَغْزُوهُمْ وَلَا يَغْزُونَنَا نَحْنُ نَسِيرُ إِلَيْهِمْWhen the clans were driven away, I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, "From now onwards we will go to attack them (i.e. the infidels) and they will not come to attack us, but we will go to them."5 narratorsBukhari · 4380لَأَبْعَثَنَّ مَعَكُمْ رَجُلًا أَمِينًا حَقَّ أَمِينٍAl-`Aqib and Saiyid, the rulers of Najran, came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) with the intention of doing Lian one of them said to the other, "Do not do (this Lian) for, by Allah, if he is a Prophet and we do this Lian, neith6 narrators