And in that same year there died: the preacher Abū al-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ghaznawī, companion of al-Karūkhī; the Ismāʿīlī arch-tyrant, Ḍalāl al-Dīn (1) Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣabbāḥī at Alamut; Shihāb Muḥammad ibn Rājiḥ al-Ḥanbalī; Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Wāsiṭī, the merchant; Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Khaḍir ibn Ṭāwūs; al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣaffār; and the ḥadith authority of Herat, Abū Rūḥ ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz.
81 – Abū Rūḥ ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Sāʿidī *
The venerable shaykh, trustworthy, long-lived, the leading transmitter of Khurasan, Ḥāfiẓ al-Dīn, Abū Rūḥ ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad ibn Asʿad ibn Ṣāʿid al-Sāʿidī, al-Khurasānī, al-Harawī, the cloth-merchant, the Sufi.
He was born in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 522 AH in Herat.
In 527 AH and thereafter he auditioned ḥadith from his maternal grandfather ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī ʿĀṣim; Tamīm ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Jurjānī; Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Fuḍaylī; Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb al-Hamadhānī, the ascetic; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Muḍarī; ʿAbd al-Rashīd, the grandson of Abū ʿUmar al-Maliḥī; and several others.
He produced a mashyakha (a catalogue of his shaykhs) in a single fascicle.
In 525 AH he attended the sessions of Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Fāmī.
He also received Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī from Khalaf ibn ʿAṭāʾ, via his audition from Abū ʿUmar al-Maliḥī.