Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥriz stated, “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn say, ‘ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim is a liar; he is worth nothing.’

Ibn Abī Shaybah added, ‘I asked him—meaning Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn—about ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, and he replied, “He is nothing, and one may not cite him as proof.” I said, “What exactly do you censure in him?” He answered, “Error and inaccuracy; he is not among those whose ḥadith should be written down.”’

ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah said, ‘My brother and I were in the presence of Yazīd ibn Hārūn, so we asked him, “Abū Khālid, what is your opinion of ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim?” He replied, “Enough— we have always known him to be a liar.”’

Al-Khaṭīb commented, ‘This same report was transmitted by Ayyūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Sāfirī from the two sons of Abī Shaybah, from Yazīd; yet a contrary report is also related from Yazīd. (1)’

Abū Naṣr al-Layth ibn Jabrūwayh said, ‘I heard Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿfar al-Bīkandī say, “More than 30,000 people would gather around ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim. He would sit on a rooftop and had three mustamliyīn (prompters who repeated his words).” (2)’

Al-Zaʿfarānī narrated: ‘ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim told us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, from ʿĀʾishah—traced back to the Prophet (marfūʿ): “Do not hold anything back from me, for I declare lawful only what Allah has made lawful and forbid only what He has forbidden in His Book.” (3)’

Maḥmūd ibn Khidāsh narrated: ‘ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim told us, from Ibn Jurayj, from ʿAṭāʾ, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: When the verse, “Whoever commits evil shall be recompensed for it …” (al-Nisāʾ 4:123) was revealed…’