In that same year there also passed away: Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, the scribe (1); Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Rūḥ al-Nahrawānī; Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn al-Sawādī; the Egyptian Qurʾān-reciter Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Hāshim; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Fadduwayah (2) al-Kūfī; and Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī (3).
406 – al-Kurāʿī, Abū Ghānim Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn
The venerable shaykh and leading transmitter of Marw, Abū Ghānim Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Marwazī, nicknamed al-Kurāʿī—so called because he traded in sheep trotters.
He was the last to narrate from Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Naḍrī, the companion of al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah. He also transmitted from Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥaddādī and others.
Those who reported from him include Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabasī, the eminent scholar Abū al-Muẓaffar Manṣūr ibn al-Samʿānī, Judge Abū al-Maḥāsin al-Ruwayānī, and his grandson Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Kurāʿī.
He died in 444 AH while in his nineties, and his grandson lived on for a further eighty years.