He passed away in Shawwāl of the year 316 AH, having reached his eighties—may Allah have mercy on him.
Among the hadiths he transmitted is the following:
Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm the grammarian, and a group of others told us, saying:
“ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated to us, and Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq likewise narrated to us; Zakariyyā ibn ʿAlī al-ʿUlabī informed us, saying: ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā related to us; Bībā bint ʿAbd al-Ṣamad informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Ishkāb narrated to us; Isḥāq al-Azraq reported to us from Sufyān, from Zubayd, from Abū Wāʾil, from Masrūq, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said:
‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Fighting a Muslim is disbelief, and abusing him is immorality.”’ (1)
230 – Ibn Asīd, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Iṣbahānī *
The Imām, precisionist, ḥāfiẓ, indefatigable traveller, and author of al-Musnad al-Kabīr—Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Asīd al-Iṣbahānī.
He heard hadith from Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī, Salm ibn Junādah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar Rustah, and Ibn al-Furāt.