the year of al-Jarrāḥ al-Ḥakamī (1), which was 112 AH.
Abu Zurʿah said, “I met him in 212 AH, and he died shortly thereafter.” (2)
Abu Ḥātim al-Rāzī said, “He was truthful.” (3)
I remark: none of his narrations appear in the Six Books, nor in the Muwaṭṭaʾ, nor in Aḥmad’s Musnad, yet he is counted among the reliable transmitters who lived to one hundred.
25 – Yaḥyā ibn Hāshim al-Ghassānī, known as al-Simsār *
A long-lived hadith scholar—Abu Zakariyyā al-Ghassānī, the Kufan broker.
He transmitted from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, Misʿar, Sufyān al-Thawrī, and other senior authorities.
Among those who narrated from him are Muḥammad ibn Ghālib Tamṭām, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn al-Ḍurays, Muʿādh ibn al-Muthannā, Yūnus ibn Isḥāq al-Anṣārī, and others.