212 – Yazīd ibn Sinān ibn Yazīd ibn Dhayyāl, Abū Khālid al-Baṣrī * (S)
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, and reliable authority, Abū Khālid al-Baṣrī, the qazzāz (silk-seller), a client of Quraysh who later settled in Egypt.
He was the brother of Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz, compiler of that famous fascicle.
Yazīd transmitted ḥadith from: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān, Muʿādh ibn Hishām, al-ʿAqadī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, and others of their generation.
Narrators from him include: al-Nasāʾī, Abū ʿAwāna al-Isfarāyīnī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, and the scholars of Egypt.
It has reached us that he was trustworthy, an imām, and distinguished.⦗1⦘
He compiled a Musnad, and he died in Egypt in his nineties.
He passed away in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 264 AH.
And his brother:
213 – Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qazzāz⦗2⦘ **
He heard ḥadith from: Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, ʿUmar ibn Yūnus, Muḥammad ibn Bakr al-Bursānī, and several others.