He left a Dīwān (1), excelled in the art of official correspondence, was noted for eloquence, possessed a wide command of the Arabic language, and had a skilled hand in disputation. He conversed in classical Arabic and dressed in genuine Arab attire. He died in Shaʿbān of the year 574 AH.

17 – Abū al-Masʿūdī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd al-Marwazī *

The righteous shaykh, Abū Ḥāmid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn Aḥmad al-Marwazī, al-Banjadīhī, al-Khamqarī (2).

Al-Samʿānī says in al-Taḥbīr (3): “A pious, long-lived, chaste shaykh from the people of Banajdīh.”

He was the sole transmitter of the Jāmiʿ of al-Tirmidhī from Judge Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghawī, known as al-Dabbās.

I heard ḥadith from him. A son of his named Muḥammad came of age, grasped hadith well, pursued it zealously, and travelled to Iraq and Syria.

I say: he was referring to Tāj al-Masʿūdī, the son of the commentator on the Maqāmāt.

The Jāmiʿ of al-Tirmidhī was also narrated by Judge Abū Naṣr ibn al-Shīrāzī, from Abū—