and the foremost critics did not rely upon him, whereas the Two Shaykhs (1) and several other leading imams did accept his narrations as evidence.
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd and Abū Ḥassān al-Ziyādī said that Abū Badr died in the year 204 AH (2).
Al-Bukhārī, however, placed his death in 205 AH (3).
I add: he was long-lived, reaching his nineties.
116 – Asbāṭ ibn Muḥammad, Abū Muḥammad al-Qurashī * (ʿ)
The shaykh, the imam, the ḥadith scholar; Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Naṣr al-Qurashī, from Kūfa.
He narrated from Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, Zakarīyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, al-Aʿmash, ʿAmr ibn Qays al-Mulāʾī, and others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Imam Aḥmad, Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, the sons of Abū Shaybah, Abū Kurayb, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd, his son ʿUbayd ibn Asbāṭ, and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAffān.
Ibn Maʿīn said: “Reliable.” (3)
(1) Al-Bukhari reported his narration only alongside another chain, and Muslim included it among the corroborative reports; consequently, the hadith is regarded as hasan (sound).
(2) Ibn Saad, Tabaqat, vol. 7, p. 333.
(3) Al-Bukhari, Al-Tarikh al-Kabir, vol. 4, p. 261.
(*) Ibn Maʿin, Tarikh, p. 23; Ibn Saad, Tabaqat, vol. 6, p. 393; Khalifa, Tarikh, p. 470; Khalifa, Tabaqat, no. 1327; Al-Bukhari, Al-Tarikh al-Kabir, vol. 2, p. 53; Al-Fasawi, Maʿrifa wa-l-tarikh, vol. 2, p. 652; Al-Aqili, Al-Duʿafa, fol. 43–44; Ibn Abi Hatim, Al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, vol. 1, p. 332; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlama al-amsar, no. 1378; Al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamāl, p. 39; Al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-tahdhib, vol. 1, p. 51/2; Al-Dhahabi, Al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 332; Al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-iʿtidal, vol. 1, p. 175; Al-Dhahabi, Al-Kashif, vol. 1, p. 104; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, vol. 1, p. 211; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat tadhhib al-kamāl, p. 26; Ibn ʿImad, Shadharat al-dhahab, vol. 1, p. 358.
(4) Yahya ibn Maʿin, Tarikh, p. 23.