b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Salīṭī; Ismāʿīl b. Nujayd al-Sulamī; ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ḥusayn al-Naḍrī al-Marwazī; Abū Isḥāq al-Qarrāb; Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Salmawayh al-Naysābūrī; ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Ahwāzī; and many others besides them in Nishapur, Isfahan, Merv, the Hijaz, Iraq, and al-Rayy.

Those who transmitted from him were: Abū ʿAtāʾ ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Malīḥī; Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī; and the scholars of Herat.

Abū Ismāʿīl would say, “We were narrated to by the Imām of the people of the East, Abū al-Faḍl al-Jārūdī.” (1)

Abū al-Naḍr al-Fāmī (2) said, “Abū al-Faḍl had no equal in the sciences—especially in memorization and ḥadith—and in shunning worldly things and living on the barest provisions. He was unrivalled in piety. Someone saw the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and grant him peace, in a dream, and the Prophet instructed him to visit al-Jārūdī’s grave, saying, ‘He was a poor man who followed the Sunnah.’ (3)”

Some senior scholars added, “Al-Jārūdī was the first in Herat to institute the extraction of useful points, the discussion of transmitters, and the grading of authenticity.” (4)

Ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī said, “I heard Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī say: I heard al-Jārūdī say: ‘I travelled to al-Ṭabarānī, and he honoured me and drew me near, and he was—’”