He narrated (1) from Faḍālah ibn ʿUbayd, Abū Hurayrah, Ibn ʿAbbās, Ruwayfiʿ ibn Thābit, and Abū Saʿīd.
From him transmitted: his son al-Ḥārith, Qays ibn al-Ḥajjāj, ʿAbd Allah ibn Hubayrah, Khālid ibn Abī ʿImrān, Rabīʿah ibn Sulaym, and a number of others.
He settled in Ifrīqiyah as a frontier guard, and died in the year one hundred AH.
Al-ʿIjlī judged him trustworthy.
As for Ibn Yūnus, he said: “He was with ʿAlī; after ʿAlī’s assassination he came to Egypt, then he rose with Ibn al-Zubayr. Ibn Marwān captured him but pardoned him.”
I say: Ibn Yūnus and Ibn ʿAsākir (2) were mistaken in thinking that he was ʿAlī’s companion, for that person was Hanash ibn Rabīʿah (3)—or Ibn al-Muʿtamir al-Kinānī al-Kūfī—from whom al-Ḥakam, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, and the scholars of Kūfah relate; he is somewhat weak. He died before the nineties.
193 – Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Shikhkhir, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿĀmirī * (ʿ)
A Baṣran, one of the leading imams.
He narrated from his father, his brother Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allah, ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, and ʿĀʾishah.
(1) Omitted from the base manuscript.
(2) See Ibn ‛Asakir, Ta’rikh Dimashq, 5/179 b.
(3) For his biography, consult: Ibn Sa‛d, al-Tabaqat, 6/225; Khalifa, al-Tabaqat, no. 1092; al-Bukhari, al-Ta’rikh, 3/99; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‛dil, vol. 1, part 2, p. 291; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 346; al-Dhahabi, Ta’rikh al-Islam, 3/246; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 1/181 a; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba, no. 2114; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 3/58; Ibn Hajar, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 96.
(*) Additional references: Ibn Sa‛d, al-Tabaqat, 7/155; Khalifa, al-Tabaqat, no. 1700; al-Bukhari, al-Ta’rikh, 8/345; Ibn Qutayba, al-Ma‛arif, p. 436; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‛dil, vol. 4, part 2, p. 274; Abu Nu‛aym, al-Hilya, 2/212; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghaba, 5/116; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1540; al-Dhahabi, Ta’rikh al-Islam, 4/212; al-Dhahabi, al-‛Ibar, 1/133; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 4/177 a; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba, no. 9445; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 11/341; Ibn Rajab, al-Nujum al-Zahira, 1/270; Ibn al-‛Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 1/135.