Abu al-Husayn (1) ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim ibn Mihrān, al-ʿĀṣimī, al-Baghdādī, al-Karkhī—the poet.
He was born in 397 AH.
He received narrations from Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mutayyam, Hilāl al-Ḥaffār, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Barḍaʿī, and Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb in his book al-Muʾtanaf, al-Muʾtaman al-Sājī, Abū Naṣr al-Ghāzī, Ismāʿīl al-Taymī, Abū Saʿd al-Baghdādī, Wajīh al-Shahhāmī, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs al-Dimashqī, Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Miṣṣīṣī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf, Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir, Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Bannāʾ, Aḥmad ibn Qafarjal, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Bayyiʿ al-Dīnawarī, Hibat Allāh ibn Hilāl al-Daqqāq, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Baṭṭī, and many others.
Al-Samʿānī said: “I asked Abū Saʿd al-Baghdādī about ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan, and he replied, ‘He was a shaykh of exacting mastery, a cultivated and virtuous man. The hadith scholars of Baghdad would write from him and attested to the soundness of his auditions.’”
I also heard ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī say: “The fourth part of the Jāmiʿ of ʿAbd al-Razzāq belonging to Ibn ʿĀṣim was lost—the copy that had been read to him with full audition. After it went missing he would relate it only by ijāza. Then, a few days before his death, Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī, who had met him, came to me and said, ‘Come, let us hear it.’ We produced the original volume; he fell in prostration to God, and we read it to him with full audition, and ʿAbd…"