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 "label": {
  "ar": "يحيى بن يعمر",
  "en": "Yahya ibn Yamur"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "يحيى بن يعمر، أبو سليمان الليثي البصري، من علماء التابعين، عارف بالحديث والفقه ولغات العرب. روى عن عثمان وعلي وعمار وأبي ذر وأبي هريرة، وعنه يحيى بن عقيل وعطاء الخراساني وقتادة وعكرمة. وهو أول من نقط المصاحف، وولاه الحجاج قضاء مرو، وكان يقضي بالشاهد واليمين. توفي سنة 129هـ. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3496}",
  "en": "Yahya ibn Yamur, Abu Sulayman al-Layti al-Basri, one of the Successors, learned in hadith, fiqh and the Arabic tongues. He narrated from Uthman, Ali, Ammar, Abu Dharr and Abu Hurayra; Yahya ibn Uqayl, Ata al-Khurasani, Qatada and Ikrima narrated from him. He was the first to dot the copies of the Qur'an, and al-Hajjaj appointed him judge of Marw, where he judged by one witness and an oath. He died in 129 AH. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3496}"
 },
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  "period/umayyad"
 ],
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 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
 ],
 "data": {
  "roles": [
   "scholar"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Mawsu'a al-fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya (Noor copy), appendix of jurist biographies, pp.3496",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5)",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "يحيى بن يعمر الليثي البصري، أبو سليمان، من علماء التابعين، توفي سنة 129هـ. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3496}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرواية والولاية",
     "markdown": "روى عن عثمان وعلي وعمار وأبي ذر وأبي هريرة. وهو أول من نقط المصاحف، وولاه الحجاج قضاء مرو. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3496}"
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    "lang": "ar",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Yahya ibn Yamur al-Layti al-Basri, Abu Sulayman, a scholar among the Successors (d. 129 AH). {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3496}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Transmission and office",
     "markdown": "He narrated from Uthman, Ali, Ammar, Abu Dharr and Abu Hurayra. He is said to be the first to dot the copies of the Qur'an, and al-Hajjaj appointed him judge of Marw. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3496}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/yahya-ibn-yamur",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "یحیی بن یعمر لیثی بصری، ابو سلیمان، تابعین کے علماء میں سے، ۱۲۹ھ میں وفات پائی۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3496}"
    }
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    "lang": "ur",
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    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
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 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-ahruf-al-sabaa",
  "concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi",
  "concept/al-shamail-al-muhammadiyya",
  "concept/al-sira-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/al-sunna-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/amr-nahy",
  "concept/bayan-al-sunna-lil-quran",
  "concept/bida"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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