doing work commensurate with the wage.(1)

His eye once became painful, so a man brought him some kohl. He asked the man, “Are you one of those who receive hadith from me?”
“Yes,” the man replied. Zakariyya therefore refused to accept it.(2)

Abu Nuʿaym al-Kufi took him to task without any evidence, saying, “What business has he with hadith? He knows the Torah better.”(3)

Ibn Saʿd said, “He was one of the freedmen of Taym Allah, a righteous and reliable man. He died in Jumada al-Ula of the year 211 AH.”(4)

Ismaʿil ibn Abi al-Harith and others maintained that he died on the second of Jumada al-Akhirah, 212 AH, in Baghdad.(5)

ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad the jurist—and others—reported to us by authorization, saying: ʿUmar ibn Muhammad informed us; Hibat Allah ibn al-Husayn informed us; Muhammad ibn Muhammad informed us; Abu Bakr al-Shafiʿi narrated to us; Bishr ibn Musa narrated to us; Zakariyya ibn ʿAdī narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAmr told us, from Ibn ʿAqil, from Jabir, who said:

“I went out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to visit a woman from the Ansar in a date-grove of hers called al-Aswāf.(6) She spread a sprinkled mat for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ beneath a vaulted trellis (ṣawr)(7). He then said, ‘A man from the people of Paradise will now come to you.’”