He transmitted extensively from the grandson of Yaʿqūb b. Shaybah, and also heard ḥadith from al-Maḥāmilī, ʿAbd al-Ghāfir b. Salāmah, and Abū al-ʿAbbās b. ʿUqdah.
Those who narrated from him include al-Barqānī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Azharī, Aḥmad b. Sulaymān the Qurʾān-reciter, and Abū al-Ḥusayn b. al-Gharīq.
Al-Khaṭīb declared him reliable (1).
He passed away in 397 AH. His father had died earlier, in 360 AH.
In that same year (397 AH) there also died ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ibrāhīm al-Muzakkī and the leading Mālikī scholar Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUmar al-Qaṣṣār of Baghdad (2).
- Ibn Asad al-Juhanī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad
The Imām, the erudite scholar, the savant of al-Andalus: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Asad al-Juhanī, from Ṭulayṭula (Toledo), a Mālikī jurist and cloth-merchant.
He was born in 310 AH.
He studied under Qāsim b. Aṣbagh and several others.
He later travelled, hearing ḥadith from Abū Muḥammad b. al-Ward and Abū ʿAlī b. al-Sakan in Egypt, and from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Abī al-Mawt in Mecca.