Fāris al-Hāshimī; Maḥmūd ibn ʿAlī al-Nasafī; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yashkurī—the shaykh of Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Samʿānī—and a number of others.
He dictated for a time in Samarqand from his own autograph manuscripts and was counted among the leading imams. He died in Jumada al-Ūlā, 518 AH, at the age of eighty-five.
274 – al-Zaʿfarānī, Muḥammad ibn Marzūq ibn ʿAbd al-Razzaq
The shaykh, imam, jurist, erudite scholar, ḥadith master, reliable authority, and righteous man: Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Marzūq ibn ʿAbd al-Razzaq ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, al-Zaʿfarānī, known as al-Jallāb, the Shāfiʿī.
Birth: 442 AH. He was a travelling merchant.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb—copiously—from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī billāh, and Ibn al-Naqqūr.
In Damascus he heard from Abū Naṣr ibn Ṭalab; in Basra from Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sīrāfī and Abū ʿAlī al-Tustarī; in Isfahan from Abū Manṣūr ibn Shakrawayh and a number of others; and in Egypt from Ṣāliḥ ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Rishdīn.
He wrote abundantly, produced carefully edited copies, took notes, compiled and authored works, and studied jurisprudence under Shaykh Abū Isḥāq, excelling in the school and mastering the Shāfiʿī doctrine. (1)