in several places. He was from the same town, although some pronounce the letter with a fatḥah instead.
He (al-Samʿānī) added, “He was a leading traditionist and man of letters, rich in hadith; he authored the works al-Sunan and al-Aḥkām—may Allah have mercy on him.”
164 – ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Marzubān ibn Sābūr al-Baghawī *
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and trustworthy authority Abū al-Ḥasan al-Baghawī, who settled in Mecca.
He was born sometime in the 190s AH.
He studied under Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAffān, al-Qaʿnabī, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl, Abū ʿUbayd, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, and their peers.
He collected narrations and compiled the large Musnad, and he learned the Qurʾānic readings from Abū ʿUbayd and others.
Those who received the variant readings from him include Aḥmad ibn al-Tāʾib, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Razzaq, Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, Abū Isḥāq ibn Firās, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Rifāʿah, and Aḥmad ibn Khālid ibn al-Jabbāb.
Other narrators from him were ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Mahrawayh al-Qazwīnī, Abū ʿAlī Ḥāmid al-Raffāʾ, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf al-Nasafī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Salamah al-Qaṭṭān, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, and many other itinerant scholars and visitors.