Yahya bin Jafar [رحمه الله] said:
«لو قدرت أن أزيد في عمر محمد بن إسماعيل-أي البخاري-من عمري لفعلت،فإن موتي يكون موت رجل واحد،وموته ذهاب العلم»
❝If I had the capability to increase the age of Muhammad bin Ismaeel -i.e. al-Bukhari- taken from my age I would have done so, since indeed my death is the death of one man, but his death was the going away of knowledge.❞
[Tareekh al-Baghdad, (2/24) | Translated By Abbas Abu Yahya Miraath al-Anbiyya]