I add: He was notable for his generosity, largesse, and exceptional courage.
It is said that he left Egypt because of the ordeal regarding the Qur’an.
Ibn Yunus states that he died in Tunis in 242 AH.
144 – The Imam’s Nephew, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Asadī (Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī)
A ḥāfiẓ, hadith scholar, eminent imam, indefatigable traveller, chief transmitter of Aleppo and imam of its congregational mosque: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ḥakīm al-Asadī, of Aleppo.
He was commonly known as “the Imam’s Nephew.”
He related hadith from Abū al-Malīḥ al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Raqqī, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAmr al-Raqqī, Khalaf ibn Khalīfah, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ḥāzim, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad, and their contemporaries in the Ḥijāz, Syria, Iraq, and the Jazīrah.
Together with Abū Nuʿaym ʿUbayd ibn Hishām he served as one of Aleppo’s leading hadith teachers.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, Baqī ibn Makhlad, al-Ḥusayn ibn Isḥāq al-Tustarī, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Ḥalabī, ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ghaḍāʾirī, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd al-Manbijī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz—the younger “Imam’s Nephew”—and many others.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is trustworthy,” while al-Nasāʾī remarked, “There is no harm in him.”
I (the author) note that he died sometime in the 240s AH.
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