—ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ahwāzī, originally from Ahwāz, first a Basran and later a Meccan, a client of the household of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.
His birth: about the year 120 AH.
He transmitted ḥadith from Ibn ʿAwn; Kahmas ibn al-Ḥasan; Abū Ḥanīfah; Mūsā ibn ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ; Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ; Ḥarmalah ibn ʿImrān al-Tujībī; Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj; Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād ibn Anʿum al-Ifriqī; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb; al-Layth; Ibn Lahīʿah; Mālik; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shuʿaythī; al-Masʿūdī; ʿAyyāsh ibn ʿUqbah—an uncle of Ibn Lahīʿah—Warqāʾ ibn ʿUmar al-Yashkurī; and many others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Bukhārī; “al-Kull” — but only through one intermediary from him — Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; Isḥāq; Abū Khaythamah; Ibn Numayr; Hārūn al-Ḥammāl; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī; ʿAbbās al-Dūrī; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṣāʾigh; Bishr ibn Mūsā; al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah; Hārūn ibn Mallūl; Abū al-Zinbaʿ Rawḥ ibn al-Faraj al-Qaṭṭān; and many others.
Al-Nasāʾī judged him reliable (1), and he was among the senior shaykhs from whom al-Bukhārī learned.
Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim al-Thaqafī related: “I heard Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān say, ‘I am between ninety and one hundred years old. I taught the Qurʾān in Basra for thirty-six years, and here in Mecca for thirty-five years.’” (2)
I add: he received the variant letters (ḥurūf) from Nāfiʿ ibn Abī Nuʿaym (3), and, as far as I know, he recited to him.