Ismāʿīl ibn Yaḥyā ibn Yazīd, the Tamīmī from Damascus.
He heard ḥadith from his own father, from Mūsā ibn ʿĀmir, Maḥmūd ibn Khālid, Muḥammad ibn Hāshim al-Baʿlabakkī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ashjaʿī, Abū Isḥāq al-Jūzajānī, Abū ʿUtbah (1) al-Ḥijāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah, Abū Umayyah al-Ṭarasūsī, and a great many others.
He was noted for careful attention and precision, and he lived to a ripe old age.
Among those who narrated from him are: Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Rabaʿī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, the judge Abū Bakr al-Abharī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, and others.
He resided at the far end of ʿUqaybah, and the meadow known as Marj Abī al-Dahdāḥ (2) is attributed to him.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said, “He possessed an abundance of the hadiths of al-Walīd ibn Muslim,” and he transmitted from a number of al-Walīd’s students.
ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī reported that he died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 328 AH; it is also said that he passed away in its Muḥarram. He came from a household of learning and merit.
118 – Khayr al-Nassāj, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī *
The eminent ascetic, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī.