- al-Maḥbūbī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥbūb al-Marwazī*
The imam, hadith scholar, and principal authority of Marw: Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥbūb ibn Fuḍayl al-Maḥbūbī, al-Marwazī, through whom the Jāmiʿ of Abū ʿĪsā (Sunan al-Tirmidhī) is transmitted.
He studied under Saʿīd ibn Masʿūd—the companion of al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl—al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Bāhilī, Abū al-Muwajjih, and several others.
Those who received hadith from him include Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Manda, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-Jarrāḥ, his freedman Ismāʿīl ibn Yanāl al-Maḥbūbī, and a number of additional transmitters.
Scholars travelled to him expressly to audition the Jāmiʿ.
He was the leading shaykh of the region, noted for his wealth and generosity.
His audition is preserved in the handwriting of his maternal uncle Abū Bakr al-Aḥwal. He journeyed to Tirmidh to meet Abū ʿĪsā in 265 AH, when he was sixteen years old.
Al-Ḥākim declared, “His audition is sound.”
I add: He died in Ramadan of 346 AH.
The last of his companions to pass away was his freedman Ismāʿīl ibn Yanāl, who granted Abū al-Fatḥ al-Ḥaddād permission to transmit his narrations.
- Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, Abū al-Faḍl al-Qushayrī**
The erudite scholar, Abū al-Faḍl al-Qushayrī of Basra, a jurist of the Mālikī school.