- ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿĀmir ibn Yazīd al-Yaḥṣubī* (cited by Muslim and al-Tirmidhī)
Ibn Tamīm, the eminent imām, the leading Qur’an-reciter of Syria, and one of its luminaries, Abū ʿImrān al-Yaḥṣubī al-Dimashqī.
It is said that he was born in the Year of the Conquest, but this is unlikely.
The sound view is what his pupil Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥārith al-Dhimārī stated: that he was born in 21 AH.
We have transmitted, with a strong chain, that he recited to Abū al-Dardāʾ, and it appears that he read portions of the Qur’an to him.
It is also reported that he heard the recitation of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān—perhaps his father took him on pilgrimage, giving him that opportunity.
Some say he recited half of the Qur’an to ʿUthmān, but this is not sound.
Another report states that he read to the Companion and judge of Damascus, Faḍālah ibn ʿUbayd. What is better known, however, is that he recited to al-Mughīrah ibn Abī Shihāb al-Makhzūmī, a close associate of ʿUthmān.
He transmitted from Muʿāwiyah, al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr, Faḍālah ibn ʿUbayd, Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd al-Qaṣīr, al-Zubaydī, Yaḥyā al-Dhimārī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, and a number of others.
Among those who recited to him were Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥārith and others.
Al-Nasāʾī and others declared him reliable, and he narrated only a small number of hadiths.