72 – ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim ibn Ṣuhayb al-Taymī * (D, T, Q)
The Imām, the erudite scholar, shaykh of the hadith specialists, and the chief hadith transmitter of Iraq; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qurashī al-Taymī, the client (mawlā) of Qarībah—the sister of al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr—originally from Wāsiṭ.
He was born in the year 107 AH, making him roughly the same age as Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah.
He narrated from: Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Bayān ibn Bishr, Yaḥyā al-Bakkāʾ, ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, Sulaymān al-Taymī, Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, Muḥammad ibn Sūqah, Muṭarrif ibn Ṭarīf, ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb, Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, Bahz ibn Ḥakīm, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān ibn Khuthaym, al-Jurayrī, ʿUmārah ibn Abī Ḥafṣah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Abū Hārūn al-ʿAbdī, and many others besides them.
Those who transmitted from him include: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ—despite his seniority—ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb al-Nashāʾī (1), and Ziyād ibn