he said: "With a dammah on the jīm, a sukūn on the fāʾ, and ending with a rāʾ. I suspect it is a place in (Ifriqiya), and Allāh knows best. He narrated, and the last to narrate from him was Jabrun ibn ʿĪsá ibn Zayd, who died in the year (237)." Similarly, it appears in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" by al-Dhahabī with the jīm having a dammah in the manuscript of al-Ẓāhiriyyah, as well as in the two printed copies of "al-Mīzān." However, in the manuscript, it is with a neglected ḥāʾ with a small ḥāʾ beneath it, while in "al-Mushtabih," it is recorded with a dammah on the ḥāʾ, and al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar followed this in "al-Tabsīr," saying: (1/340): "With a neglected ḥāʾ having a dammah: Yaḥyá ibn Sulaymān al-Ḥafrī al-Maghribī..." Al-Dhahabī critiqued al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī in his esteemed book "Tawḍīḥ al-Mushtabih" (1/112/2), saying: "The author followed Ibn Mākūlā and al-Faraḍī in attributing this Yaḥyá, and likewise, Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ imitated him in "Tartīb al-Madārik," as did Ibn al-Jawzī. I found it in "Tārīkh Ibn Yūnus" in the handwriting of al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir, and he heard it with the jīm having a dot and a dammah. I also found it in "al-Mustakhraj" by Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Mandah, which seems more correct, and it may be attributed to (Jafrah ʿAtīb), a tribe name in the lands of the Maghrib." Then I found some mentioning that it was only said to him: (al-Ḥafrī) meaning with the neglected ḥāʾ, as mentioned by al-Amīr and others, because his house was on a pit in the alley of Umm Ayyūb in (al-Qayrawān). End of quote." I said: It seems from all that has been mentioned, especially from the last words of Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn, that both attributions are correct: (al-Jafrī) with the jīm and (al-Ḥafrī) with the ḥāʾ, the first attributed to a place in al-Qayrawān, and the other to the pit that was near his house. And Allāh knows best. Furthermore, this Yaḥyá was deemed trustworthy by al-Dhahabī in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ," and he said in "al-Mīzān": "I know of no fault in him."