al-Ḥarrānī, and others.
Al-Bukhārī, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Nasāʾī all transmitted from him through a single intermediary.
Abū Ḥātim (1) declared him trustworthy.
He died in 233 AH.
241 – Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Wāqid al-Asadī * (Kh, S, Q)
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and meticulous scholar, Abū Yaḥyā al-Asadī—their client—from Harrān.
He was born around 150 AH.
He received hadith from Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, Abū al-Malīḥ al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Raqī, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, Abū ʿAwānah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, and others of their tier.
Among those who reported from him were al-Bukhārī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Ghālib Tamām, Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī, and many more besides.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “I found him to be a ḥāfiẓ of his hadiths and a man of the sunnah.” Someone remarked to him, “The people of Harrān speak ill of him!” He responded, “The people of Harrān seldom approve of anyone; he only frequents the authorities on account of an estate he owns.” (2)