Abu Zakariya al-Sarraj (Yahya ibn Ahmad), Andalusian-Fasi jurist

أبو زكريا السراج (يحيى بن أحمد)

Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Sarraj, an Andalusian of Fez, a jurist, traditionist, memoriser, philologist and poet; the entry gives his death as 805 AH. He studied with Abu al-Barakat ibn al-Hajj al-Balfiqi, 'Abd al-Nur and Ibn Abbad, among others, headed the study of hadith in his time, and wrote a catalogue of his teachers and books. ^{1 2}