He died in Nishapur in a year a little beyond 540 AH (1).
Sanjabast (2) is a well-known stop between Nishapur and Sarakhs, much like a village.
150 – al-ʿAbbādī, Abū Manṣūr al-Muẓaffar ibn Ardashīr al-Marwazī
The celebrated, rousing preacher Abū Manṣūr al-Muẓaffar ibn Ardashīr al-Marwazī, known as al-ʿAbbādī and nicknamed “al-Amīr.”
A brilliant orator—graceful in gesture and eloquent in phrasing—yet scant in piety.
He heard ḥadith from Naṣr Allāh al-Khushnāmī, ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Shīrawī, and others.
In 541 AH he came to Baghdad as an envoy from Sultan Sanjar (3). He stayed three years, preaching in the Palace Mosque and at the Dār al-Salṭana. Crowds thronged to him; Caliph al-Muqtafi and the leading figures attended his sermons, and he delivered dictations in the Palace Mosque.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Akhdar, Ḥamza ibn al-Qubbayṭī, and Muḥammad ibn al-Mukarram; his eloquent preaching became proverbial.
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “He was not reliable; I saw a treatise in his own handwriting that promotes the permissibility of drinking wine (4).”