Al-Yūnārātī also selected a fascicle for him and recited it on his behalf more than once. Al-Samʿānī said, “I never had the chance to hear him myself, but a number of people transmitted his narrations to me, among them Muḥammad ibn Abī Naṣr al-Khwinjānī” (1).
I add: those who received his authorization include Ibn al-Lattī and Karīmah al-Qurashiyyah.
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, in the year 562 AH.
311 – al-Zāghūlī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad
The shaykh, imam, ḥāfiẓ, ascetic, and exemplar Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Yaʿqūb al-Marwazī (2), known as al-Zāghūlī, also called al-Aruzzī.
Zāghūl is a village in the district of Banjdīh (3).
The ḥāfiẓ al-Samʿānī mentioned him, and both he and his son Abū al-Muẓaffar ʿAbd al-Raḥīm transmitted from him, saying:
“He studied jurisprudence under my father Abū Bakr Muḥammad and under al-Muwaffaq ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm …”
(1) Pronounced khunjan—with a damma on the initial kha, a kasra on the waw, a sukun on the nun, a fatha on the jim, and ending with a final nun. It is a nisba to Khunjan, a village in the Isfahan district; see Al-Ansab, 5/211.
(*) Al-Ansab, 6/221; Al-Lubab, 2/53; Al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat, 2/373; Al-Subki, Tabaqat, 6/99–100; Al-Isnawi, Tabaqat, 1/115; Kashf al-Zunun, 1367; Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 4/187–188; Hadiyat al-Arifin, 2/94.
(2) The manuscript reads with the letter zay, giving the form al-Marzawi, which ordinarily refers to Marw Shahjan, the best-known city of Khurasan. However, the person concerned is from Zaghol, a locality belonging to Marw al-Rudh, as al-Samani notes in Al-Ansab, 6/221. The correct nisba is therefore al-Marwazi (with a doubled r and a dha). See Muʿjam al-Buldan, 3/126 (Zaghol) and 5/112–113 (Marw).
(3) Written separately as Banj Dih, an administrative area of Marw al-Rudh; in Arabic the name means “five villages.” The nisba may be al-Banjdihi, al-Bandihi, or al-Fanjdihi. See Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 4/391, and the annotations to Al-Ansab, 2/309.