Al-Fallās said, “He passed away in 212 AH; he did not specify the month.”

Jābir ibn Kurdī maintained that the death occurred in 211 AH—an isolated report.

Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Zimmānī said it was in 213 AH (1)—yet that, too, is unlikely.

Even more improbable is what Ibn al-Muqriʾ transmitted from Abū Ṭalḥah Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tammār, from Ḥamdān ibn ʿAlī al-Warrāq, who said:

“We went to Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal in 213 AH and asked him to narrate to us. He replied, ‘You want to hear from me while a man like Abū ʿĀṣim is still alive?! Go to him instead.’” (2)

Al-Bukhārī—mistaken on this point—stated that the death took place in 214 AH, at the end of the year (3).

Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb remarked, “Among those who narrated from Abū ʿĀṣim were Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim and Muḥammad ibn Ḥibbān, and one hundred and thirty-one years separate their deaths.”

I comment: Ibn Ḥibbān died in 331 AH, and he is weak.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, Aḥmad ibn Hibatullāh, and Zaynab bint Kindī read to us, from al-Muʾayyad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī, who told us, “Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl narrated (ḥ).”

They also related to us from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad—tamīm ibn Abī Saʿīd reporting—and from Zaynab al-Shaʿrīyah—Ismāʿīl ibn Abī al-Qāsim reporting—that ʿUmar ibn Masrūr al-Zāhid informed them, saying:

“Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd told us; Abū Muslim al-Kajjī told us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī and Abū ʿĀṣim both said: ‘Bahz ibn—’”} ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​​