Among those who reported from him were al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Zayyāt, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zuhrī, and others.
Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī said, “He is truthful.”
Al-Dāraqutnī, however, declared, “He is not reliable; he transmitted false ḥadith from trustworthy narrators.”
I say: he died in 304 AH, in the month of Ramaḍān of that year.
In that same year there also died: Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Manjanīqī; the ruler of the Maghrib, Ziyādat Allāh ibn al-Aghlab, at Ramla while fleeing from al-Mahdī; Ṭarīf ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mawṣilī; al-Qāsim ibn al-Layth al-Rasʿanī; Yamūt ibn al-Muzarraʿ, the historian; and Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī, the ascetic.
113 – al-Sājī, Zakariyya ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān*
The imam, the firmly grounded ḥāfiẓ, the ḥadith scholar of Basra—its leading shaykh and mufti—Abū Yaḥyā