Milḥān al-Balkhī, who later settled in Baghdad.
A close companion of Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Ibn Qāniʿ, al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Bakr Ibn Khallād al-Naṣībī, and a number of others.
Al-Dāraqūṭnī declared him trustworthy.
He passed away in the year 290 AH.
In that same year there also died: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (1); Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Abbār (2); al-Ḥasan ibn Sahl al-Mujawwiz (3); al-Ḥusayn ibn Isḥāq al-Tustarī; Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Ghallābī (4); Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Muʾaddib (5); and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Mundhir (6).
267 – Ibn Asad, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Asad al-Madīnī *
The venerable, long-lived shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Asad ibn Yazīd, a Madinite who later resided in Iṣfahān and was known for his asceticism. He was the last person to transmit from Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, and we possess a well-known session of his narrations from him, which we have heard.