I say: He lived for ninety-eight years, and a number of his higher-level transmissions are preserved in the Qatiʿiyyat and Ghaylāniyyat collections.
During that same year there also died: Ishaq ibn Ismaʿil al-Ramli in Isfahan (1); Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Sawwar al-Naysaburi (2); Muʿadh ibn al-Muthanna al-ʿAnbari (3); and ʿUthman ibn Saʿid ibn Bashshar (4), the mentor of the Shafiʿis.
171 – Yahya ibn ʿUthman ibn Salih ibn Safwan al-Sahmi * (Q) (5)
The erudite scholar, hadith master, and historian, Abu Zakariyya al-Sahmi of Egypt.
He narrated from his father, ʿUthman ibn Salih; Saʿid ibn Abi Maryam; ʿAbd Allah ibn Salih; Nuʿaym ibn Hammad; Asbagh ibn al-Faraj; al-Nadr ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbar; Ishaq ibn Bakr ibn Mudar; and others of their tier among the pupils of al-Layth, as well as from Ibn Lahiyya.
Those who took reports from him include Ibn Majah, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf al-Nasafi, Abu Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Hamzah al-Jammal, ʿAli ibn Muhammad al-Misri the preacher, Muhammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Kamil, ʿAli ibn Hasan ibn Qudayd, Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani, and many others.