—Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Shādhān al-Rāzī, the Sufi, father of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Masʿūd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad; and the shaykh of the Sufis, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Walīd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Walīd al-Zawzanī, the sage of his age.
219 – Ibn Khumayrawayh: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Harawī *
The shaykh, imam, ḥadīth scholar, and trustworthy authority—chief transmitter of Herat—Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Khumayrawayh ibn Sayyār al-Harawī.
He heard ḥadīth from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jakkānī, Aḥmad ibn Najdah, Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Muqātil, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Bakr al-Barqānī; Abū al-Faḍl ʿUmar ibn Abī Saʿd; Abū Dharr ʿAbd ibn Aḥmad; al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Bāshānī; the judge Manṣūr ibn Ismāʿīl; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq; Abū Yaʿqūb al-Qarrāb; and Muḥammad ibn al-Fuḍayl—all of them from Herat.
Abū Bakr al-Samʿānī declared him reliable.
He died in 372 AH.
In the same year passed away: al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl al-Naḍrawī—spelled with a dotted ḍād—of Herat; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Shaybānī in Nīshāpūr; ʿAḍud al-Dawlah ibn Būyah; Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar, the husband of al-Ḥurra; Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Waṣīf; and Abū Bakr ibn Bukhayt the flour-seller.