Ibn Numayr and Aḥmad both said, “He died in the year 133 AH.” Ibn Maʿīn said, “In 134 AH.”
I read this in Baalbek to Abū’l-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad and ʿAbd al-Walī ibn Rāfiʿ al-Khaṭīb, and I heard it in Damascus from ʿĪsā ibn Barakah, Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh, and others. They said:
“ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar informed us; Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad related to us in person; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Zunbūr informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid narrated to us; Ziyād ibn Ayyūb narrated to us; Hushaym narrated to us; al-Mughīrah narrated to us, from Shibāk, from Ibrāhīm, from Hunayy ibn Nuwairah, from ʿAlqamah, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said:
‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The people who exercise the greatest restraint in killing are the believers.” (1)’
Shuʿbah corroborated him, reporting from al-Mughīrah. Abū Dāwūd likewise recorded it, through Ziyād.
6 – ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baṣrī * (ʿ)
An Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and the foremost ḥadith scholar of Basra—Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baṣrī, nicknamed al-Aḥwal—he served as the market inspector of al-Madāʾin.
It was said that his manumission bond (walāʾ) was with the Banū Tamīm; others said, with the Banū Umayyah.
He transmitted from: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sarjis and Anas ibn Mālik;
and from: Rufayʿ Abū’l-ʿĀliyah, Muʿādhah, Ḥafṣah bint Sīrīn, ʿAmr ibn Salamah al-Jarmī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaqīq al-ʿUqaylī, Abū Qilābah, al-Shaʿbī, al-Naḍr ibn Anas, Abū Naḍrah, Abū’l-Ṣiddīq al-Nāji, Bakr al-Muzanī, Sawādah ibn ʿĀṣim, Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, al-Ḥasan, Ibn Sīrīn, Abū’l-Mutawakkil al-Nāji, and Abū’l-Walīd ʿAbd Allāh ibn—