Hamza al-Zayyat

Hamza ibn Habib al-Zayyat, one of the Seven Readers, known as Abu Umara, a client of the family of Ikrima ibn Rabi' al-Taymi. ².

Ibn al-Nadim reports that he would bring oil from Kufa to Hulwan, and carry cheese and walnuts from Hulwan to Kufa. He belonged to the fourth class of the people of Kufa and was a jurist. ².

He died in 156 AH in the caliphate of Abu Ja'far. He wrote a book on the reading of Hamza and a book on the laws of inheritance. Among those who transmitted from him were Khalid ibn Yazid, al-Kisa'i, al-Hasan ibn Atiyya and Ubayd Allah ibn Musa al-Absi. ².