Suwayd ibn al-Sabīʿī, and many others.
Among those who transmitted from him were: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī—who was actually one of his own teachers—Mālik, al-Layth, Nāfiʿ ibn Yazīd, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ḥāzim, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī, Mūsā ibn Sargis, ʿAmr (1) ibn Mālik al-Sharʿabī, Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ, Bakr ibn Muḍar, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Abū Ḍamrah Anas ibn ʿIyāḍ, and others besides.
Aḥmad said, “I know of no fault in him.”
Al-Nasāʾī said, “Trustworthy.”
Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr reported from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn that he said, “Trustworthy.”
Abū Ḥātim remarked, “I prefer Ibn al-Hād to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith, and he and Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān are on the same level.”
He—meaning Yazīd—is, in himself, reliable.
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd said: “He died in Medina in the year 139 AH, and he was trustworthy and narrated abundantly.”
89 – Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥārith Abū ʿAmr al-Ghassānī* (4)
The eminent imam, Abū ʿAmr al-Ghassānī, originally from Dhimār and later a Damascene; he was the imam of the Great Mosque of Damascus and the leading shaykh of its Qur’an reciters.
Dhimār is a village in Yemen.
He was born during the reign of Muʿāwiyah.
He studied the Qur’an under Ibn ʿĀmir, and it has also reached us that he recited to Wāthilah ibn