More than one authority narrated from him.
He died in Shawwal of the year 319 AH.
I add: he lived ninety years.
47 – Muḥammad ibn Ḥamduwayh ibn Sahl, Abū Naṣr al-Marwazī *
The Imām, the precise ḥāfiẓ: Abū Naṣr al-Marwazī al-Fāzī—spelled with an initial fāʾ, for he was from the village of Fāz—although some refer to him as al-Ghāzī.
He narrated from Sulaymān ibn Maʿbad al-Sinjī, Maḥmūd ibn Ādam, Saʿīd ibn Masʿūd, Abū al-Muwajjah Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, and their contemporaries.
He taught ḥadith in Marw and in Baghdad.
Among those who transmitted from him are Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥayyawayh, al-Dāraquṭnī, Yūsuf al-Qawwās, Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Salīṭī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī, Abū Aḥmad ibn Jāmiʿ al-Dahhān, and others.
Al-Barqānī said: “Al-Dāraquṭnī narrated to us, saying, ‘Muḥammad ibn Ḥamduwayh al-Marwazī and ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl ibn Ṭāhir both related to us; the two are trustworthy, distinguished ḥāfiẓes.’” (1)
I remark: It is said that Abū Naṣr al-Fāzī al-Ghāzī al-Muṭṭawʿī died in 327 AH, yet the sounder view of his death—according to what the ḥāfiẓ Ghunjar reported—is that he heard ʿUthmān ibn—