He heard from al-Qaʿnabi, ʿAmr ibn Marzūq, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb, Hudbah ibn Khālid, and others of their standing.
Those who reported from him include Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, the Egyptian judge Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Dhuhlī, and many others.
Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in his Register of Trustworthy Narrators.
He passed away in Shawwāl, 295 AH.
252 – “The Tailor of the Sunnah,” Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Sijzī (س (1))
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, exacting scholar and indefatigable traveller: Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā ibn Iyās ibn Salamah al-Sijzī, a long-time resident of Damascus, widely known as “the Tailor of the Sunnah.”
He was born in 195 AH.
He studied under Bishr ibn al-Walīd, Shaybān ibn Farrūkh, Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd, Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ, Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, Ḥakīm ibn Sayf al-Raqqī, Abū Muṣʿab, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Balkhī, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Suwayd ibn Saʿīd, and many others besides.
His travels were extensive, and he was thoroughly versed in hadith.
Al-Nasāʾī transmitted from him at great length, as did Isḥāq al-Manjinaqī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, and Ibn