—and he was also deemed reliable by Yaḥyā al-Hamdānī— not al-Muḥāsibī —together with al-Rabīʿ al-Murādī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, and Baḥr ibn Naṣr.
Abū Zurʿah said: “Reliable (thiqa).”
Al-Dāraqutnī likewise declared him trustworthy. (1)
Ibn Yūnus stated: “He spent most of his life in Tinnīs and Dumyāṭ, and he died in Dumyāṭ in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 205 AH.” (2)
Al-Khaṭīb said: “The last person to transmit from him was Sulaymān ibn Shuʿayb al-Kayyāsānī; he lived on until 280 AH.” (3)
195 – Ibn Kunāsah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Asadī * (S)
The Imām, erudite scholar, reliable authority, accomplished man of letters: Abū ʿAbd Allāh—also known as Abū Yaḥyā—Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khalīfah ibn Zuhayr ibn Naḍlah al-Asadī, of Kūfa.
“Kunāsah” is the nickname of his grandfather ʿAbd al-Aʿlā; some say it was his father’s sobriquet, and it is possible that both bore it.
He was born in 123 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, al-Aʿmash, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid,