ʿAsakir mentioned—though we have not personally seen the report—as well as al-Hasan ibn Sufyan, Muhammad ibn ʿAqil al-Balkhi, al-Husayn al-Mahamili, and others.
Abu Hatim said, “He is truthful.”
It is said that he died sometime after the year 267 AH; others say he died in that very year.
82 – Ibn ʿAbd al-Samad, Yazid ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi * (D, S (1))
The imam, meticulous hadith scholar, Abu al-Qasim Yazid ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Samad al-Dimashqi, a client of Banu Hashim.
He heard hadith from: Abu Mushir, Abu Bakr al-Humaydi, Abu al-Yaman, Abu al-Jamahir, ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid ibn Rashid the Qur’an-reciter, Adam ibn Abi Iyas, Sulayman ibn Harb, Yahya al-Wuhazi, Yasarah ibn Safwan, and their peers.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abu Dawud, al-Nasa’i, Abu Hatim—who was his contemporary—Abu Zurʿah al-Nasri, his companion, Abu ʿAli al-Hasairi, Ibn Jawsa, Abu ʿAwanah, Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Asam, Ibn Hadhlam, many others, and Ibn Abi Hatim, who said: “Truthful, reliable.” (2)
He met al-Rabiʿ al-Muradi, who honored him, seated him beside him on his couch, and he cast