—al-Ansari, al-Jabiri, al-Bukhari, al-Zaranjari.
And Zaranjara (1) is one of the villages of Bukhara.
He studied jurisprudence under his father and under Burhan al-A’immah Ibn Maza, and he received the narration of Sahih al-Bukhari from his father, who in turn had it from Abu Sahl al-Abiwardi, from Ibn Hajib al-Kashani (2).
Among those who trained with him were: Shams al-A’immah Abu al-Wahda Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Sattar al-Kurdi; the mufti Jamal al-Din ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ibrahim al-Mahbubi; and Sadr al-ʿAlam Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Maza.
He lived to nearly ninety years of age, and the leadership of the Ḥanafī school eventually rested with him.
He passed away in Shawwal, 584 AH.
86 – al-Masʿūdī, Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad*
The imam, hadith scholar, jurist, linguist, and versatile polymath, Taj al-Din, Abū Saʿīd,
(1) It is also pronounced: Zarnakari.
(2) The complete chain of transmission is: from al-Firabri, from al-Bukhari.
(*) Biographical notices are found in: Yaqut, Irshad al-arib, 7/20; id., Muʿjam al-buldan, 1/743; Ibn al-Dubaythi, Tarikh, fol. 60 (Shahid ʿAli); al-Qifti, Inbah, 3/166; al-Mundhiri, Takmila, 1, no. 41; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, 4/390; Ibn al-Najjar, al-Tarikh al-mujaddad (cited in al-Mustafad of al-Husami al-Dimyati), fol. 9; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 18 (Paris, 158), and al-Ibar, 4/253; al-Iʿlam, fol. 211; al-Mukhtasar al-mahtaj ilayh, 1/67; Ibn Maktum, Talkhis, fol. 218; al-Isnawi, Tabaqat, 1/252; al-Safadi, al-Wafi, 3/233; al-Subki, Tabaqat, 6/123; al-Dunji, al-Falaka, 88; Ibn Qadi Shuhba, Tabaqat al-nuhat, fol. 70; Ibn Hajar, Lisan al-mizan, 5/256; al-Suyuti, al-Bughyah, 1/158; Ibn al-Imad, al-Shadharāt, 4/280; Ibn al-Gazzi, Diwan al-Islam, fol. 21.
He is likewise cited by al-Samʿani in the entry “al-Hamdawiyi”…