He transmitted on the authority of: his own father; al-Aʿmash; Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī; and ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Sulaymān.

Those who related from him were: his son Ḥasan; his nephew Saʿd ibn Muḥammad; Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd—who was older than he; Isḥāq ibn Buhlūl; and ʿUmar ibn Shabbah.

Ibn Maʿīn said: “He was weak in judicial matters and weak in ḥadith.” (1)

Al-Ḥusayn ibn Fahm said: “His beard reached his knees.” (2)

I say: He left behind a number of stories from his days on the bench, he had a playful disposition, and he lived to a very old age.

Khalīfah said: He died in the year 201 AH. (3)

128 – Yaḥyā ibn Sallām ibn Abī Thaʿlabah, Abū Zakariyyā al-Baṣrī *

The Imām, the erudite scholar, Abū Zakariyyā al-Baṣrī, who later settled in the Maghrib, residing for a time in Ifrīqiyyah.

He narrated from Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, Fiṭr ibn Khalīfah, Shuʿbah, al-Masʿūdī, al-Thawrī, and Mālik.

He learned the variant Qurʾanic readings from the disciples of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, collected them, and composed works on the subject.

Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn Wahb—who belonged to his own generation—and his son Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā,