- Yazīd ibn Samurah al-Rahāwī al-Madhḥijī, Abū Hirrān*—an ascetic from Syria.
He narrated from ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī, Yaḥyā al-Saybānī, al-Awzāʿī, and al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Wahb, Abū Mushir, Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr, Ibn ʿĀʾidh, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, and others.
Abū Zurʿah of Damascus said, “He was a man of merit and asceticism.”
Ibn Yūnus commented, “No one recorded any criticism of him.”
Al-Rahā is a clan of Madhḥij.
- I say: As for Yazīd ibn Shajara, Abū Shajara (1) al-Rahāwī, he belonged to the earliest generation.
It is said that he enjoyed Companionship.
He served as commander of the army in the campaign against the Byzantines.
He transmitted reports traced directly back to the Prophet ﷺ (mursal) and also narrated from Abū ʿUbaydah; Muʿāwiyah appointed him to office.
Shabbāb stated that he was martyred in the year 58 AH.
Ibn Saʿd said that he and his companions were killed at sea in the same year, 58 AH.