Yahya ibn Ma'in

Yahya ibn Ma'in
Yahya ibn Ma'in
يحيى بن معين
Title	Malik al-Huffaz (the king of the memorizers of hadith); Shaykh al-Muhaddithin (the teacher of the hadith experts);
Personal life
Born	774; Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Died	847 (aged 72–73); Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Region	Abbasid Caliphate
Main interest(s)	Hadith; Jurisprudence;
Known for	Ilm al-Rijal
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Creed	Athari
Muslim leader
Teacher	Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak; Jarir ibn Abd al-Hamid; Waki' ibn al-Jarrah; Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi; Sufyan ibn Uyaynah; Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani;
	Students Ibn Sa'd; Ahmad ibn Hanbal; Al-Bukhari; Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Juzajani; Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj; Dawud al-Zahiri; Abu Dawud; Abu Hatim; Abu Ya'la al-Mawsili; ;
	Influenced by Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak;
	Influenced Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muhammad al-Bukhari, Dawud al-Zahiri, Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Juzajani;
	Arabic name
Personal; (Ism)	Yaḥyā; يَحْيَىٰ
Patronymic; (Nasab)	Ibn Maʿīn ibn ʿAwn ibn Ziyād ibn Bisṭām; ٱبْن مَعِين ٱبْن عَوْن ٱبْن زِيَاد ٱبْن بِسْطَام
Teknonymic; (Kunya)	Abū Zakariyyā; أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا
Toponymic; (Nisba)	Al-Marrūdhī; ٱلْمَرُّوذِيّ

Yahya ibn Ma'in (Arabic: يحيى بن معين, romanized: Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn; 774-847) was a classical Islamic scholar in the field of hadith. He was a close friend of Ahmad ibn Hanbal for much of his life. Ibn Ma'in is known to have spent all of his inheritance on seeking hadith to the extent he became extremely needy.