Yazid ibn Harun

Yazid ibn Harun ibn Zadhi ibn Thabit, Abu Khalid al-Sulami, a client of the Banu Sulaym (118 to about 206 AH), was from Wasit. It is said his origin was from Bukhara. He was one of the great hadith masters of Wasit. He heard from Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari, Sulayman al-Taymi, Asim al-Ahwal, Humayd al-Tawil, Dawud ibn Abi Hind, Abdallah ibn Awn, al-Husayn al-Mu'allim, Awwam ibn Hawshab, Hajjaj ibn Artat, Abu Ghassan Muhammad ibn Mutarrif, Shu'ba, Muhammad ibn Amr al-Laythi, the two Hammads, and many others besides them. ¹

Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ali ibn al-Madini, Abu Khaythama, Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shayba, Khalaf ibn Salim, Ahmad ibn Mani', Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahim (Sa'iqa), Ya'qub al-Dawraqi, al-Hasan ibn al-Sabbah al-Bazzar, al-Hasan ibn Arafa, al-Harith ibn Abi Usama and others transmitted from him. ¹

He came to Baghdad and related hadith there, then returned to Wasit, where he died. He was born in the year 118. ¹