Ṣāliḥ Jazrah said, “He was given to asceticism; Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal used to praise him, yet he was ill-mannered toward the hadith scholars.” (1)
Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj said, “People used to call him Abū Yaḥyā, and Abū Yaḥyā Ṣāʿiqah likewise addressed him by that kunya.” (2)
It was also said that he was from Marw al-Rūdh.
Ibn Saʿd and al-Bukhārī recorded that he died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 227 AH. (3)
155 – Abū Khālid al-Farrāʾ, Yazīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Naysābūrī
The imām, reliable hadith scholar, and trustworthy narrator, Abū Khālid Yazīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Naysābūrī, known as al-Farrāʾ.
He received hadith from Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, Abū Bakr al-Nahshalī, Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Mālik ibn Anas, Khārijah ibn Muṣʿab, and others.
Among those who narrated from him are Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ al-Sulamī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ, Ismāʿīl ibn Qutaybah, Yāsīn ibn al-Naḍr, and al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān al-Nasawī (4), together with several others.