Ismāʿīl ibn Qutaybah said, “He was among the most God-fearing of our teachers and the most energetic in devotion.”
Al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān said, “I missed meeting Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī because my mother would not allow me to travel to him. Allah made good that loss for me with Abū Khālid al-Farrāʾ, whose chains of transmission were higher than those of Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā.”
I say: He died in 229 AH.
In that same year also died: Khalaf al-Bazzār, Thābit ibn Mūsā the ascetic, Aḥmad ibn Shabīb al-Ḥabaṭī ⦗1⦘, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zurārah al-Raqqī, Khālid ibn Hayyāj al-Harawī, Abū Nuʿaym Ḍirār ibn Ṣurad al-Kūfī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Musnadī, ʿAmr ibn Khālid al-Ḥarrānī, Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād al-Khuzaʿī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbduwayh the companion of Shuʿbah, Yaḥyā ibn Yūsuf al-Zammī, Muḥammad ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Naysābūrī, and Abū Yāsir ʿAmmār ibn Naṣr.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām informed us, from Abū Rūḥ; Tamīm informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān narrated to us; Yazīd ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us; al-ʿUmari ⦗2⦘ narrated to us, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:
“We set out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for Hajj, and we did not release ourselves from any restrictions until the Day of Sacrifice.”
156 – al-Farrāʾ Saʿd ibn Yazīd al-Naysābūrī*
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Naysābūrī, the Farrāʾ.