Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ (1) said: Yaḥyā ibn Yaʿmar died before the year 90 AH.
171 – ʿUmayr ibn Saʿīd al-Nakhaʿī al-Kūfī * (al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Mājah)
A senior shaykh—trustworthy, learned in fiqh, exceptionally long-lived, and one of the last survivors of the early generation.
He narrated from: Ibn Masʿūd, ʿAlī, ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir, Abū Masʿūd, Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, and a number of others.
Narrators from him include: Abū Ḥuṣayn ʿUthmān ibn ʿĀṣim, al-Aʿmash, Ashʿath ibn Sawwār, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh, Fiṭr ibn Khalīfah, Misʿar ibn Kidām, and many others.
Declared reliable by Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn.
Ibn Saʿd (2) said: He died in 115 AH.
I (the author) add: He probably lived beyond one hundred years.
172 – Yazīd ibn Abī Kabshah Jibrīl ibn Yasār al-Batlahī (3) ** (al-Bukhārī)
One of the senior commanders.
His father’s name was Jibrīl ibn Yasār.
He is counted among the Successors.
(1) In his Tarikh, pp. 302–303. Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 6/170; Khalifa, Tabaqat, no. 1143; al-Bukhari, Tarikh, 6/532; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, vol. 3, part 1, p. 376; Abu Nuʿaym, Dhikr Akhbar Isfahan, 2/35; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal, p. 1064; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-tahdhib, 3/117a; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4/287; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 8/146; Khulasa Tadhhib al-tahdhib, p. 296.
(2) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 6/170.
(**) al-Bukhari, Tarikh, 8/354; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, vol. 4, part 2, p. 286; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh, 18/186a; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal, p. 1544; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-tahdhib, 4/179a; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 11/354; Khulasa Tadhhib al-tahdhib, p. 434.
(3) The nisba derives from Bayt Lihya, literally “house of the gods,” a well-known village in the Ghuta plain of Damascus. According to tradition, Azar, the father of the prophet Ibrahim, used to carve idols there; see Yaqut, Muʿjam al-buldan.