The ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Naḍr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fāmī (1) even compiled a fascicle of reports for him, drawing on the transmissions of his own teachers. Among the works he passed down is the book Al-ʿAwālī by Ibn ʿAdī. He also heard the Jāmiʿ of Abū ʿĪsā (al-Tirmidhī) from al-Azdī.
Those who narrated from him include al-Samʿānī, his son, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā ibn Abī Ḥabīb, his grandson Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī, his other grandson ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī, Abū Rūḥ ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz, and others. He lived a little over ninety years.
Al-Samʿānī (2) said: “An ʿAlawī, of fine conduct, praiseworthy, beautiful within and without, devoted to worship and good works. He used to look after the poor and attend to them, and he was held in esteem by the people of his town. He died in 559 AH.”
269 – al-Ziyādī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Baghawī
The shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Baghawī, Qur’an reciter, Sufi, and last of the senior figures. He heard the Jāmiʿ of Abū ʿĪsā from Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ al-Dabbās in 488 AH. Ibn Nuqṭah states that he died in Herat in 560 AH, and had he