He lived for eighty-eight years and was regarded as one of the jurists.
He passed away at Baghshur (1) in the month of Dhu al-Qaʿdah, in 408 AH.
The last of his students to remain alive was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Masʿūdī.
2 – Al-Tiryāqī, Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī
The shaykh, leading scholar, man of letters, long-lived authority, and reliable transmitter: Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Thumāmah al-Harawī, known as al-Tiryāqī.
Tiryāq is a village within the jurisdiction of Herat (2).
He received the Jāmiʿ of Abū ʿĪsā (al-Tirmidhī)—all of it except the final section, which opens with “The Merits of Ibn ʿAbbās”—from al-Jarrāḥī.
Among those who heard it from him were al-Muʾtaman al-Sājī and Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Malik al-Karūkhī (3).
He also transmitted ḥadith from Judge Abū Manṣūr al-Azdī and the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Faḍl al-Jārūdī.
(1) It is a small town located between Herat and Marw al-Rudh in the region of Khurasan; the adjectival nisba derived from it is baghawi, an irregular formation. See: al-Ansab 2/254; Mu jam al-Buldan 1/467; Sharh al-Sunnah 1/20. In Shadharat al-Dhahab the name is corrupted to “Bashfur.”
(*) Al-Ansab al-Muttafiqa, p. 33; al-Ansab 3/50; Mu jam al-Buldan 2/28; al-Ibar 3/302–303; al-Lubab 1/214; Shadharat al-Dhahab 3/368.
(2) Herat is a great and well-known metropolis, one of the foremost cities of Khurasan. It was conquered by al-Ahnaf b. Qays during the caliphate of the Commander of the Believers Uthman b. Affan. Yaqut states: “When I was in Khurasan in the year 607 AH, I saw no city there more eminent, larger, grander, more beautiful, or more populous. It is rich in orchards, abundant water, and manifold blessings; it swarms with scholars and is filled with people of virtue and wealth.” The infidel Tatars invaded it in 618 AH and laid it waste, relegating it to the annals of history…
(3) His biography will be given in volume 20, no. 183.