Around 1040, Yahya ibn Ibrahim, a chieftain of the Gudala ( and brother-in-law of the late Tarsina ), went on pilgrimage to Mecca.

With Abu Imran's recommendation, Yahya ibn Ibrahim made his way to the ribat of Waggag ibn Zelu in the Sous valley of southern Morocco, to seek out a Maliki teacher for his people.

The Gudala soon had enough and expelled him almost immediately after the death of his protector, Yahya ibn Ibrahim, sometime in the 1040s.

Probably sensing the useful organizing power of Ibn Yasin's pious fervor, he was invited by the Lamtuna chieftain Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni to preach to his people.

In the early 1050s, the Lamtuna, under the joint leadership of Yahya ibn Umar and Abdallah ibn Yasin-soon calling themselves the al-Murabitin ( Almoravids )-set out on campaign to bring their neighbors over to their cause.

The Almoravids ' first military leader, Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni, gave them a good military organization.

* Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni ( c. 1050-1056 )

In the Islamic times, a pseudo-etymology was produced by the historian Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri ( d. 892 ) quoting a folk story that the town was presumably founded by one " Abbad bin Hosayn " from the Arabian Tribe of Banu Tamim, who established a garrison there during the governorship of Hajjaj in the Ummayad period.

The Algarve was dominated completely by a muladí coalition led by Sa ' id ibn Mal, who had expelled the Arabs from Beja, and the lords of Ocsónoba, Yahya ibn Bakr, and of Niebla, Ibn Ufayr.

... The Christian writer Yahya ibn Sa ' id reported that everything was razed ' except those parts which were impossible to destroy or would have been too difficult to carry away '.

Harun orders his vizier, Ja ' far ibn Yahya, to solve the crime and find the murderer within three days or be executed if he fails his assignment.

The only early Arab historian who mentions the Druze is the 11th century Christian scholar Yahya of Antioch, who clearly refers to the heretical group created by ad-Darazī rather than the followers of Hamza ibn ' Alī.

This passage corresponds closely with the canonical John 1: 19-30, except that in that passage, the words are spoken by John the Baptist ( in the Qur ' an ; Yahya ibn Zakariya ) and refer to Jesus.

A 13th century book illustration produced in Baghdad by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti | al-Wasiti showing a group of pilgrims on a Hajj.

Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti, a contemporary Mauritanian scholar, has argued that " though homosexuality is a grievous sin ... no legal punishment is stated in the Qur ' an for homosexuality ... it is not reported that Prophet Muhammad has punished somebody for committing homosexuality ... there is no authentic hadith reported from the Prophet prescribing a punishment for the homosexuals ..." Hadith scholars such as Al-Bukhari, Yahya ibn Ma ` in, An-Nasa ' i, Ibn Hazm, Al-Tirmidhi, and others have impugned them.

In a commentary of the hadith Sahih Muslim, entitled al-Minhaj, the medieval Islamic scholar Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi stated that " one of the collective duties of the community as a whole ( fard kifaya ) is to lodge a valid protest, to solve problems of religion, to have knowledge of Divine Law, to command what is right and forbid wrong conduct ".

* October / November – Al-Fadl ibn Yahya al-Barmaki, Abbasid governor ( b. 766 )

* February – Al-Fadl ibn Yahya al-Barmaki, Abbasid governor ( d. 808 )

* Ja ' far ibn Yahya, Persian Vizier

* Yahya ibn Umar, Alid Imam

Yahya A. S. related to me from Malik A. S. from Abu Bakr ibn Nafi A. S. from his father Nafi A. S. from Abdullah ibn Umar A. S. that the Messenger of God ordered the moustache to be trimmed and the beard to be left.

* Yahya ibn Umar

Examples of this include the cases of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah ( according to the Kaysanites Shia ), Muhammad ibn Abdallah An-Nafs Az-Zakiyya, Musa al-Kadhim ( according to the Waqifite Shia ), Muhammad ibn Qasim ( al-Alawi ), Yahya ibn Umar and Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi ( according to the Muhammadite Shia ).

and this was embodied in the destruction of the shrine of Hussayn ibn ʻAlī, an action that was carried out obstensibly in order to stop pilgrimages to that site, and the flogging and incarceration of the Alid Yahya ibn Umar.

In 864, his forces put down a rebellion by the Alid Yahya ibn Umar.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibn az-Zubayr that Khawla ibn Hakim came to Umar ibn al-Khattab and said, Rabia ibn Umayya made a temporary marriage with a woman and she is pregnant by him.

* 1488: Abu Umar Othman dies and is succeeded by Abu Zikriya Yahya.

The chronicler al-Bakri claims a fortress " surrounded by 20, 000 palms " was built here by Yannu ibn Umar, a brother of the first Almoravid chieftans, Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni and Abu Bakr ibn Umar, and marked the frontier between the dominions of the Lamtuna and the Gudala.

It was near this location, at a place called Tabfarilla, that the early Almoravids suffered their first significant defeat, when the Gudala crushed an Almoravid Lamtuna army based in Azuggi and killed their leader Yahya ibn Umar in 1056.

His brother, Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni was the chieftain of the Lamtuna who invited the Maliki teacher Abdallah ibn Yasin, and together launched the Almoravid ( murabitūn ) movement in the early 1050s.

Upon the death of Yahya ibn Umar in the Spring of 1056 at the Battle of Tabfarilla, the spiritual leader Abdallah ibn Yasin appointed Abu Bakr as the new military commander of the Almoravids.

Abu Bakr ibn Umar died in 1087, and his dominions were partitioned among his sons and nephews ( the sons of Yahya ) after his death.

Abu Bakr ibn Umar, a natural leader of Lamtuna extraction, a branch of the Branès, one of the original disciples of ibn Yasin who served as a spiritual liaison for followers of the Maliki school of thought, was appointed general after the death of his brother Yahya ibn Ibrahim.

" Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Dinar said, " A man came to Abdullah ibn Umar when I was with him at the place where judgments were given and asked him about the suckling of an older person.

Other prominent descendants include: Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, Abdullah al-Aftah ibn Ja ' far al-Sadiq, Ali al-Uraidhi ibn Ja ' far al-Sadiq, Muhammad ibn Qasim ( al-Alawi ), Muhammad ibn Ja ' far al-Sadiq ( Al-Dibaj ), Yahya ibn Umar, Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi.

Also in 868, a leader of the Zanj Rebellion claimed to be the incarnated form of the former Alid rebel Yahya ibn Umar.

Bhutto later distanced himself from Yahya Khan after he was arrested by Military Police along with Mujib.

Soon after the arrests, a high level meeting was chaired by Yahya Khan.

* 1316-Gibraltar was unsuccessfully besieged by the Nasrid caid Yahya ( Second Siege of Gibraltar ).

* Tunis-At that time, Abu Yahya ( son of Abu Zajaria ) was the sultan of Tunis.

His grandfather Mohammad Yahya Khan ( father in law of Amir Yaqub Khan ) was in charge of the negotiations with the British leading to the Treaty of Gandamak.

In 1967, another martial law was imposed by another Army Commander-in-Chief General Yahya Khan, who designated himself as the Chief Martial Law Administrator.

In 1970, the Martial law office was dissolved by General Yahya Khan who disestablished the state of West Pakistan.

Imam Yahya died during an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1948 and was succeeded by his son Ahmad.

General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan Qizilbash, ( Urdu: آغا محمد یحیی خان قزلباش ; February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980 ), was the senior Army Commander who was the third President of Pakistan, and the military dictator from 1969 until the dissolution of East-Pakistan, in December 16, 1971.

Yahya Khan was born in 1917 in Chakwal, British Punjab, then part of the British Indian Empire, into a family descended from the elite soldier class of Nāder Shah, the Persian ruler who conquered, pillaged and looted Delhi ( took all the Mughal regalia to Tehran ) in the 18th century.

Immediately after the 1965 war, Major General Yahya Khan who had miserably commanded the 7th Division in Operation Grand Slam to utter disgust ,( since the change of command from a successfully advancing Maj. General Akhtar Hussain Malik had resulted in a shameful retreat from Akhnoor river bridge ) was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, appointed Deputy Army Commander in Chief and Commander in Chief designate in March 1966.

Operation Searchlight ordered by Yahya was a planned military pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in erstwhile East Pakistan in March 1971 Ordered by the government in West Pakistan, this was seen as the sequel to Operation Blitz which had been launched in November 1970.

During the European Dark Ages, Yahya Ibn_al -' Awwam ’ s handbook guided the people of North Africa, Spain and the Middle East with its emphasis on irrigation ; a translation of this work was finally carried to the southwest of the United States.

Tepe Yahya, an ancient trading city in southeastern Iran, was a centre for the production and distribution of soapstone in the 5th – 3rd millennia BC.

Khalid Yahya Blankinship argued that the military defeat at Tours was one of the failures that contributed to the decline of the Umayyad caliphate: " Stretching from Morocco to China, the Umayyad caliphate based its expansion and success on the doctrine of jihad — armed struggle to claim the whole earth for God's rule, a struggle that had brought much material success for a century but suddenly ground to a halt followed by the collapse of the ruling Umayyad dynasty in 750 AD.

Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Yahya al-Suli ( c. 880 – 946 ) was a nadim ( boon companion ) of successive Abbasid caliphs.