in the year 229 AH. (1)
Al-Baghawī likewise dated his death to that year.
Muṭayyan, however, said—he alone—that it occurred in the year seven. (2)
Such is the reading in the manuscript, and nine is often misread as seven!

230 – Ibn Abī al-Aswad, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baṣrī (B, D, T)
An imam, ḥāfiẓ, and firmly reliable authority. He is Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd ibn al-Aswad al-Baṣrī.

He trained under his maternal uncle, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī.

He heard ḥadith from Mālik ibn Anas, Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān, Abū ʿAwanah, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, his grandfather Abū al-Aswad, Ḥumayd ibn al-Aswad, and others.

He became widely learned and was appointed judge of Hamadhān.

Al-Bukhārī and Abū Dāwūd transmitted from him, and al-Tirmidhī narrated—through an intermediary—from him.

Among those who also narrated from him are Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh Sammūyah, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, and ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khurrādhādh. He began attending ḥadith gatherings while still a youth, thanks to the care of his uncle.

ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Manṣūr related from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn that he said:
“There is no problem with him, except that he heard from Abū ʿAwanah when he was very young; even so, he was devoted to the pursuit of ḥadith.” (3)