and Muḥammad al-Iṣṭakhrī, the associate of Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī; the master of the devoted worshippers, Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Nāfiʿ al-Bushtī—Busht is a village of Nīshāpūr; the master of the ascetics, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Maḥmūyah of Nīshāpūr; the leading grammarian, ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Rummānī; the hadith scholar of Kūfah, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād; the hadith scholar of Baghdad, Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Furāt; the Shāfiʿī shaykh, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Sahl al-Māsarjisī of Nīshāpūr; and the erudite scholar, Abū ʿUbayd Allāh al-Marzubānī.
330 – al-Māsarjisī, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Sahl
The eminent scholar and senior Shāfiʿī authority, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Sahl ibn Muṣliḥ al-Nīshāpūrī, known as al-Māsarjisī, grandson of the traditionist al-Ḥasan ibn ʿĪsā ibn Māsarjis.
He heard hadith from his maternal uncle Muʾammal ibn al-Ḥasan, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, Makkī ibn ʿAbdān, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Ibn Shawdhab, Ibn Dāsah, Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Madīnī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥadhlam, and many others.
He studied jurisprudence with Abū Isḥāq al-Marwazī, accompanied him to Egypt, became the lesson-repeater for Abū ʿAlī ibn Abī Hurayrah, and in Egypt met the disciples of al-Rabīʿ and al-Muzanī.
Among those who studied law under him were the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī and a number of others.
Narrators from him include al-Ḥākim, Abū Nuʿaym, Abū Ṭālib Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Daskarī, Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣābūnī, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjrūdhī, and others.