Yahya ibn Habib ibn Ismail ibn Abdullah ibn Habib ibn Qays ibn Dinar يحيى بن حبيب بن إسماعيل بن عبد الله بن حبيب بن قيس بن دينار

Name: Yahya ibn Habib ibn Ismail ibn Abdullah ibn Habib ibn Qays ibn Dinar

Fame: Yahya ibn Habib al-Asadi

Kuniya: Abu Aqil

Lineage: al-Asadi, al-Kufi

Occupation: Camel herder

Rank: Saduq (truthful) Hasan al-Hadith (good in Hadith)

Lived in: Sir Man Ra'a, Kufa

Abu al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi: Unknown and Ibn Hajar commented saying: He (Abu al-Faraj) erred in that

Abu Hatim ibn Hibban al-Busti: He (Yahya) might have erred and been mistaken, and he named him: Yahya ibn Habib ibn Muhammad ibn Ismail ibn Habib ibn Abi Thabit

Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi: Saduq (truthful)

Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani: Saduq (truthful) might have erred

Authors of Tahrir Taqrib al-Tahdhib: Thiqah (trustworthy), for a group of trustworthy narrators narrated from him, and Ibn Hibban's statement that he might have erred, every trustworthy narrator might err

Yahya ibn Ma'in: Declared him trustworthy