and seventy AH.
Whereas Ibn Saʿd, Shabāb, and ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī said that he passed away in 80 AH.
- ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Qays al-Nakhaʿī (ʿ)
A leading imam and jurist—Abū Bakr al-Nakhaʿī, the brother of al-Aswad ibn Yazīd.
He narrated from ʿUthmān, Ibn Masʿūd, Salmān the Persian, Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, and a number of others.
Among those who transmitted from him are: Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, ʿUmārah ibn ʿUmayr, Jāmiʿ ibn Shaddād, Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, his son Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and other authorities declared him reliable.
He died after 80 AH at an advanced age.
Ibn Saʿd noted that he also narrated from ʿUmar and ʿAbd Allāh.
Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid reported—through Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from his father—that he said: “I saw ʿUmar wipe over his leather socks.”
Abū Sakhrah said: “I saw ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd(1) wearing a black turban.”
- His son: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī (4)
He narrated from his father, from his uncle al-Aswad, and from his father’s uncle ʿAlqamah.
Transmitters from him include Zubayd al-Yāmī, al-Ḥakam, Manṣūr, al-Aʿmash, and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAmr al-Fuqaymī.
Ibn Maʿīn and others considered him trustworthy.
Abū Zurʿah said: “He was held in high esteem, one of the eminent.”
Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī said: “He used to be called al-Kayyis (‘the insightful’) because of his refinement in worship.”