He narrated from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, Ibn al-Mubārak, al-Ashjaʿī, Ibn ʿUyaynah, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, and others of their rank.
Transmitters from him include Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Athram, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Dharīḥ, and Muṭayyin.
Ibn Wārah (1) also related his narrations and lavished praise upon him, while Muṭayyin said, “He is reliable.”
He died in Muḥarram, 238 AH.
18 – al-Zammī, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Yūsuf* (B, Q)
The imam, hadith master, and authoritative proof: Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Karīmah al-Zammī.
In Baghdad he transmitted extensively from Sharīk, Ḍimām ibn Ismāʿīl, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, Abū al-Malīḥ al-Raqī, and their peers.
Narrators from him include al-Bukhārī, the judge Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Birtī, ʿUthmān ibn Khurrāzādh, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Naḍr, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī, and others.
Ibn Mājah also recorded his reports.
He was among the foremost itinerant traditionists, and Abū Zurʿah pronounced him trustworthy.