Those who narrated from him were: Ibn Ṣāʿid, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Najīḥ, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and others.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said, “He was reliable and firmly grounded, difficult to obtain narrations from, yet blessed with an excellent memory.” (1)
Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Munādī remarked, “He was noted for precision, retention, and truthfulness.”
He also reported that the shaykh died in Ramadan of the year 282 AH.
I (the author) say: He actually passed away sometime in the nineties.
163 – Abū al-Muwajjih Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Fazārī *
The shaykh, the imam, the hadith scholar of Marw—Abū al-Muwajjih Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Fazārī al-Marwazī—the linguist and ḥāfiẓ.
He studied under ʿAbdān ibn ʿUthmān, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Saʿdawayh al-Wāsiṭī, Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, Ṣadaqah ibn al-Faḍl, Saʿīd ibn Hubayrah, and the like.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥalīm, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥabībī, the two Marwīs Abū Bakr ibn Abī Naṣr, and several others.
He died in the year 282 AH.
Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ said: “Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī, in his own handwriting, recorded the name with a kasra under the jīm …”