Al-Ḥākim said, “He was one of the eminent shaykhs of Khurāsān in jurisprudence, belles-lettres, and tireless scholarship.
Al-Sharmqānī d. 366 AH.
Muhammad ibn Abī al-ʿIzz al-Bazzāz in Tripoli narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā al-Makhzūmī narrated to us; Ibn Rufāʿah narrated to us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khulʿī narrated to us; Abū Saʿd al-Mālīnī narrated to us; Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sharmqānī al-Thānī narrated to us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī narrated to us; Shujāʿ ibn Mukhlad, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, and Abū Khaythamah all reported:
Ibn ʿUlayyah narrated from Khālid al-Ḥaddāʾ who said that al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to me, from Ḥumrān, from ʿUthmān, from the Prophet ﷺ: “Whoever dies while knowing that there is no god but Allah will enter Paradise.” (1)
I say: He will enter Paradise in keeping with whatever good or evil he had done, and only after whatever punishment or pardon Allah completes for him.
203 – Al-Māsarjisī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad *
The great ḥāfiẓ, reliable authority, indefatigable traveller and Imām: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿĪsā ibn Māsarjis of Nīshāpūr.
His grandfather was a descendant of al-Ḥasan ibn ʿĪsā ibn Māsarjis, the client (mawlā) of Ibn al-Mubārak.