Hamzah ibn Habib al-Zayyat—both of whom are among the seven Qur'anic readers—and among the teachers of Qur'anic recitation whom he also met was ʿAbdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Bashir ibn Dhakwan, one of the reliable transmitters from Ibn ʿAmir al-Dimashqi, one of the seven.

There is no doubt that by meeting those imams he benefited from them, and he was keen to remain in their company throughout his stay in those lands, as was the custom of students of knowledge in that era, whom neither the distance of the journey nor the endurance of hardship deterred. They would seize the opportunity and invest all their time in attending the gatherings of scholars, learning from them, benefiting from them, and recording what they heard from them.

The dispersal of scholars across those regions, and the specialization of each in types of knowledge not possessed by others, served as an incentive for the gifted among students of knowledge to travel to them and make their way to their places of residence, taking hardship lightly, bearing difficulties, and contenting themselves with little, in response to the call of Allah the Exalted: {Yet why should not a group from every faction go forth to gain understanding in the religion, and warn their people when they return to them, so that they may beware?} [Al-Tawbah: 122], and in pursuit of Allah's pleasure and their desire for what He has of reward and recompense. It was rare to find a student of knowledge in that time who had not undertaken a journey.

* His Teachers:
Since Imam Ibn Majah had an extensive journey that encompassed numerous regions of the lands of Khurasan and Transoxiana, as well as the most important centers of learning in the lands of Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and the Hijaz, it was not surprising that