thousand people, some on horseback and others on foot, attended the funeral—except for one man who had been serving as judge. He was forbidden to be present because he held the doctrine of Jahm. (1)

Abu Shaykh said: I heard my son ʿAbd al-Razzāq relate from Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Kisāʾī, who said:
“I saw Ibn ʿĀṣim in a dream. It was as though he were sitting in the congregational mosque, praying while seated. I greeted him with salam and he returned it. I then asked, ‘Are you Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿĀṣim?’
‘Yes,’ he replied.
I said, ‘What has Allah done with you?’
He answered, ‘My Lord keeps me company.’
I said, ‘Your Lord keeps you company?’
‘Yes,’ he repeated.
At that I gasped and woke up.” (2)

His works: A pamphlet was compiled listing more than three hundred separate titles, transmitted from him by Abu Bakr al-Qabbāb. Among them are: al-Musnad al-Kabīr, about 50,000 hadiths; al-Āḥād wa-al-Mathānī, roughly 20,000 hadiths arranged by category; and al-Mukhtaṣar min al-Musnad, a little over 20,000. The enumeration continued in this manner until the total reached somewhat more than 140,000.

His teachers included: Abu al-Walid al-Tayālisi; ʿAmr ibn Marzūq; Abu ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī; Muḥammad ibn Kathīr; Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Muqaddamī; Shaybān ibn Farrūkh; Hudbah ibn Khālid; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Numayr; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Shāfiʿī; Yaʿqūb ibn Ḥumayd ibn Kāsib; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī; al-Ḥawṭī ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Najdah; Duḥaym; Hishām ibn ʿAmmār; Abu Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah; ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād; Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah al-Jahdari; and Abu Kāmil.