R. Samuel Hagiz (d. c. 1570) left Fez, his birthplace, about 1590, remained for some time in Tripoli, North Africa, then traveled to Venice where, in 1597, he published Mevakkesh ha-Shem, and Devar Shemu'el, a homiletic commentary on Deuteronomy. He then emigrated to Erez Israel and settled in Jerusalem. His family is of Spanish origin which emigrated to Morocco after the expulsion decrees of 1492, and settled in Fez, where some of its representatives were at the head of the Castilian community of Megorashim ("the exiled").

מעבר לשער: "אמר המגיה [ר' ישראל זפרוני] ... ולמען יהיה הספר שלם ... שם [המחבר] בסוף הספר פירוש כל המאמרים הנמצאים במדרש אלה הדברים רבה ... וקרא אותו דבר שמואל". יצא לחוד.