and Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī; he also received transmission from al-Salafī while in Mayyāfāriqīn.
Those who, in turn, narrated from him were al-Salafī and Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī.
He lived in utter poverty, subsisting on alms; if anyone gave him more than half a dirham he would return the excess. People say that his conduct declined toward the end of his life—may Allah pardon him.
He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 543 AH at Marw al-Rūdh, aged seventy-two, and he was regarded as the shaykh of the mendicants.
192 – al-Sinjī, Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh *
The shaykh, imam, ḥāfiẓ, preacher; the foremost traditionist, orator, and scholar of Marw—Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad, son of Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Sahl ibn Abī Ṭalḥah al-Marwazī, al-Sinjī, the Shāfiʿī, the muʾadhdhin, the khatīb.
He was born in the large village of Sinjā al-ʿUẓmā in 463 AH, or slightly earlier.
He heard hadith from Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Zāhirī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Shāshī al-Shāfiʿī; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Akhram; Naṣr Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Khushnāmī; Fayḍ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shaʿrānī; the sharīf Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām; Thābit ibn Bundār; Abū al-Baqāʾ al-Ḥabbāl; Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Sarrāj; and Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn