—in the dawn prayer he would recite from the long al-Mufassal passages. (1)”

243 – Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Rabbih al-Jirjīsī* (D, M, S, Q (2))

A pilgrim, imām, ḥāfiẓ, and thoroughly reliable transmitter; his kunyah was Abū al-Faḍl al-Zubaydī. He was from Ḥimṣ and served there as the muʾadhdhin. Because he lived near the Church of Saint George in Ḥimṣ, the epithet derived from that location came to prevail.

Born: 168 AH.

He heard ḥadīths from Baqīyah ibn al-Walīd, Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Muḥammad ibn Ḥimyār, Abū al-Mughīrah, and their peers.

He was the leading muhaddith of Ḥimṣ in his time.

Abū Dāwūd transmitted from him.

Muslim, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Mājah also narrated through an intermediary from him.

Among those who reported directly from him were Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal—though older than he—Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Abū Zurʿah al-Naṣrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī, ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Dayr ʿAqūlī, and others.

Imām Aḥmad praised him, saying, “How firmly accurate he was!” (3)