—he transmitted from: ʿUbayd Allah ibn Mūsā, al-Khuraybī, Yaḥyā al-Babluṭṭī, Abū Nuʿaym, Abū Mushir, Abū al-Naḍr, Muḥammad ibn Jahḍam, and Junādah ibn Muḥammad.
Those who transmitted from him include: Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Harawī, Aḥmad ibn Naṣr ibn Bujayr, Khaythamah ibn Sulaymān, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn ibn Khālid, and others.
Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn said in one of his dictation sessions: “Isḥāq ibn Sayyār—the imām of the imāms—narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Zakariyyā narrated to us …,” after which he quoted a hadith (1).
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “Isḥāq ibn Sayyār wrote to me conveying some of his narrations, and he was truthful, reliable.” (2)
Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī reported: “He died in Nisibis during Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 273 AH.”
Ibn Abī Ḥātim also related that Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī used to say, “None remains in our time …"
(1) The remainder of the chain and the wording, as preserved in Tarikh Ibn Asakir, ms. Kh: 2/380 b, read: “…from Hammam, from Qatadah, from Qudamah b. Wabra, from al-Asbagh b. Nubatah, from Ali who said: I was with the Prophet, peace be upon him, in al-Baqi on a cloudy, rainy day. A woman passed by on a donkey led by a muleteer; the donkey’s leg slipped into a hole and she fell. The Prophet turned his face away. They said, ‘Messenger of Allah, she is wearing trousers (mutsarwilah).’ He replied, ‘O Allah, forgive the women of my community who wear trousers,’ repeating this three times, and then added, ‘People, wear trousers, for they are the most concealing of your garments, and clothe your women with them when they go out.’
Al-Uqayli records the report in al-Duafa, fol. 18, under the entry of Ibrahim b. Zakariyya, commenting: ‘He narrates odd and erroneous reports; this hadith is known only through him and no one corroborates him.’ Ibn Adi cites it in al-Kamil, 4/1, and says: ‘This hadith is objectionable; no one transmits it from Hammam except Ibrahim b. Zakariyya, and I know it only through this route. Ibrahim relates falsehoods from trustworthy narrators.’ Ibn al-Jawzi, in al-Mawduat, 3/45, after quoting Ibn Adi’s route, concludes: ‘Fabricated, and the culprit is Ibrahim.’
(2) Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, 2/323.