Abū al-Walīd ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh, together with many others besides.

He was regarded as one of the few distinguished ḥuffāẓ (first-rate ḥadith masters).

Those who transmitted from him include: Qatādah; Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind; Sulaymān al-Taymī; Shuʿbah; Sharīk; Maʿmar; Hushaym; Thābit ibn Yazīd al-Aḥwal; al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥayy; Ḥammād ibn Zayd; Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth; Ibn ʿUlayyah; Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd; Zuhayr; the two Sufyāns; ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād; Abū Muʿāwiyah; ʿAlī ibn Mushir; Ibn Fuḍayl; Marwān ibn Muʿāwiyah; Yazīd ibn Hārūn; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr, and a great many others.

Ibn al-Madīnī said: “He has about 150 ḥadiths.”

ʿAlī (ibn al-Madīnī) related: “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd say, ‘ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal was not a ḥāfiẓ.’”

Ibn Maʿīn said: “Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān used to consider ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal weak.”

Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad reported from Shuʿbah: “ʿĀṣim is dearer to me than Qatādah in the narrations from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, because he is the more accurate of the two.”

Ibn al-Mubārak, on the authority of al-Thawrī, said: “I met four of the people’s ḥuffāẓ: Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, and Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd,” adding, “and I regard Hishām al-Dastuʾāʾī as one of them.”

Nawfal ibn Muṭahhir transmitted from Ibn al-Mubārak, from Sufyān, who said: “The ḥuffāẓ of Basra are three: Sulaymān al-Taymī, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, and Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind.”

Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth said: “Whenever ʿĀṣim says, ‘He claimed,’ that is something beyond doubt.”

Ibn Mahdī remarked: “ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal was among the ḥuffāẓ of his contemporaries.”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Ibn Maʿīn, Abū Zurʿah, and a number of others declared him trustworthy (thiqah).

ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī also graded him reliable, and on another occasion said, “He is firmly established (thabt).”