90 – Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī, Abū Saʿīd
A leading, trustworthy imam—Abū Saʿīd al-Basrī, a client of Banū Tamīm.
He was born, it appears, toward the end of the caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik.
He transmitted ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, al-Ḥasan, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, Ibn Abī Mulaykah, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, Abū al-Zubayr, Qatādah, Ayyūb, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Mubārak, Wakīʿ, Ibn Mahdī, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Abū Dāwūd, Abū Usāmah, Abū al-Walīd, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-ʿAwqī, ʿAffān, Abū Salamah al-Tabūdhakī, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Hudbah ibn Khālid, Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl, Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī, Shaybān ibn Farrūkh, and many others besides them.
Aḥmad and others declared him reliable.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “He is more accurate than Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, and he is trustworthy.”
Abū al-Walīd said, “In our view he is more reliable than Hishām ibn Ḥassān.”
Maḥmūd ibn Ghailān reported from Wakīʿ: “Trustworthy, trustworthy.”
Abū Ḥātim said, “Reliable; he holds a middle rank among the students of al-Ḥasan and Ibn Sīrīn.”
Ibn Saʿd said, “He was trustworthy and firmly grounded; ʿAffān used to exalt his standing, and he resided among the tribe of Bāhilah.”