while among those who narrated from him were Mālik, al-Thawrī, Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, Ibn ʿUyaynah, al-Darāwardī, and others besides. Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him reliable. Ibn Saʿd said: “He was firmly reliable, devout, ascetic, and transmitted a great many hadiths.” I add: He died sometime after 130 AH.
72 – Yazīd ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir al-Azdī (M, D, T, Q)
A Damascene by origin, the brother of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd.
He related hadith from Yazīd ibn al-Aṣamm, Makḥūl, Ruzayq ibn Ḥayyān, Wahb ibn Munabbih, and a number of others.
Those who reported from him include al-Awzāʿī, Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Abū al-Malīḥ al-Raqī, Ibn ʿUyaynah, Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, and many more.
He ranked among the foremost leading scholars; at one point he was nominated to serve as judge, but it was deemed that he surpassed the very office.
Abū Dāwūd said: “He is trustworthy.”
Al-Walīd ibn Yazīd granted him fifty thousand dinars.
Ibn ʿUyaynah remarked, “I know of no one in Syria whom Makḥūl left behind comparable to Yazīd ibn Yazīd—apart from what Ibn Jurayj has mentioned concerning Sulaymān.”
Al-Juʿfī said, “Yazīd ibn Yazīd visited us, and he was known for his frequent weeping.”
Hishām ibn ʿAmmār stated: “He ruined himself: he went out, helped in killing al-Walīd, and took one hundred thousand dinars.”