Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah said, “I heard ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī say:
‘My father told me that he had fasted the month of Ramadan eighty times, never missing a single day. He added that he died at the age of ninety-four.’
Hārūn ibn Ḥātim—whose solitary report is not authoritative—related: ‘I asked ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim about his year of birth and he answered: 105 AH.’
73 – His son, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim al-Taymī * (Kh, T, Q), was a ḥāfiẓ, reliable, and one of the pupils of Shuʿbah. Al-Bukhārī included him in his Ṣaḥīḥ, and Abū Dāwūd also narrated from him. He died in 221 AH.
He met Ikrimah ibn ʿAmmār and a number of others. He transmitted ḥadith from ʿĀṣim ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUmari, Ikrimah ibn ʿAmmār, Ibn Abī Dhīʾb, Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj, al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Ḥuddānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masʿūdī, his own father, and many others, and he was regarded as one of the leading hadith scholars.
Among those who narrated from him are Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad.