of Nuhavand for a long period.
He received ḥadīth from Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh al-Mawṣilī while in Āmid; afterwards he travelled to Baghdad where he distinguished himself in jurisprudence under Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, mastered legal theory, and heard from Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, the judge Abū Yaʿlā, and Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Ḥusayn ibn Khusraw, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Bājisrāʾī, and others.
Al-Silafī relates: “He told me that he was born in 432 AH, that he was one of Abū Isḥāq’s foremost pupils, that he held the judgeship of Nuhavand for many years, yet did not reside there.”
Al-Mubārak ibn Kāmil al-Khaffāf said: “He died in Nuhavand in Muḥarram, 509 AH.”

220 – Ibn Marzūq, Abū al-Khayr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Marzūq al-Aṣamm *
The ḥāfiẓ, teacher, and far-travelled scholar Abū al-Khayr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Marzūq al-Aṣamm al-Harawī, the client of Shaykh al-Islām.
He studied with Abū ʿUmar al-Maliḥī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Naṣr al-Kūfānī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Busrī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mandah and their peers; he collected a vast body of reports and preserved them with care.
Those who learned from him include Hibat Allāh al-Saqaṭī, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, and several others.
Ismāʿīl al-Taymī said: “He was a precise ḥāfiẓ.”