are imported from Herat (1).
He narrated from Qurrah ibn Khālid, Shuʿbah, and ʿAlī ibn al-Mubārak.
Those who reported from him include al-Bukhārī, Bundār, Ḥajjāj ibn al-Shāʿir, ʿAbd, and al-Kudaymī.
Abū Ḥātim (2) deemed him ṣadūq (reliable).
Muslim transmitted a report—from an unnamed man—from him.
He died in 211 AH; his grandfather had been a contracted slave (mukātib) of Zurārah ibn Awfā.
Abū Zayd was one of al-Bukhārī’s earliest teachers. His death preceded that of al-Anṣārī by four years, yet Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī has fuller chains of transmission and is the senior of the two.
188 – Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr ibn Naṣr ibn Asīd al-ʿAbdī * (ʿ)
A ḥāfiẓ, an authoritative scholar, a jurist, and the judge of Kirmān (3); Abū Zakariyyā al-ʿAbdī, affiliated with the Qays tribe, originally from Kūfah.
It was said that his father’s name was Naṣr;
others said Bishr;
and others said Bashīr.