al-Ḥasan al-Saʿdī, the Marwazī.
His grandfather, Mushamrij ibn Khālid, was counted among the Companions.
ʿAlī was born in the year 154 AH and travelled far and wide in pursuit of knowledge.
He related ḥadith from: Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar; Sharīk the judge; Hushaym; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr; Ibn al-Mubārak; al-Rabīʿ ibn Badr al-Saʿdī; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh; al-Hiql ibn Ziyād; Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Madīnī; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hilālī; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ḥāzim; ʿAlī ibn Mus-hir; Qurān ibn Tammām; Maʿrūf al-Khayyāṭ—the disciple of Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ; al-Walīd ibn Muḥammad al-Muwaqqarī; al-Haytham ibn Ḥumayd; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād; ʿAṭṭāb ibn Bashīr; Ḥassān ibn Ibrāhīm; Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān; Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd; Khalaf ibn Khalīfah; Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jumaḥī; Baqiyyah; Ibn ʿUyaynah; Yazīd ibn Hārūn; and many others besides them.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Bukhārī, Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Abū ʿAmr al-Mustamlī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Abbār, ʿAbdān ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥakīm, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿAwn—both of them from Nasa— Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṭūsī al-ʿAnbarī, Isḥāq ibn Abī ʿImrān al-Isfarāʾīnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿAwn al-Nasāʾī (a cousin of the aforementioned), the Imām of the Imāms Ibn Khuzaymah, and Abū Rajāʾ Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdawayh al-Marwazī the historian.