Abu Saʿid ibn Yunus and Muhammad ibn Harith further reported that he lived one hundred and five years.
5 – ʿAbdān ibn Muhammad ibn ʿIsa, Abu Muhammad al-Marwazī *
The eminent Imām, the jurist of Marw, Abu Muhammad al-Marwazī, renowned for his ascetic life.
He heard hadith from Qutaybah ibn Saʿid, ʿAli ibn Ḥujr, Abu Kuraib, ʿAbd Allah ibn Munir, Ismaʿil ibn Masʿud al-Jaḥdari, ʿAbd al-Jabbar ibn al-ʿAlaʾ, Muhammad ibn Bashshar, and their contemporaries.
He studied jurisprudence with the companions of al-Shafiʿi—al-Rabiʿ and others—excelled in the school, and his reputation spread far and wide.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abu Ḥamid ibn al-Sharqi, al-Dagholi, ʿAli ibn Ḥamshadh, Yaḥya ibn Muhammad al-ʿAnbari, Abu Ahmad al-ʿAssal, Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani, and many others.
He authored the work al-Muwaṭṭaʾ and other books besides.
Abu Nuʿaym al-Ghifari said: “I heard him say, ‘I was born in the year 220 AH, on the night of ʿArafa.’”
I say: al-Tabarani met him during the ḥajj.
Abu Saʿd al-Samʿani states in his Ansāb ⦗1⦘: “ʿAbdān the jurist…”