Narrated from him were: Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayyūyah, Qāḍī Abū Bakr al-Abharī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb attested to his reliability and recorded that he died in 313 AH.
I say: he lived a little over ninety years.
253 – al-ʿAskarī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh *
The imam, ḥadith scholar, and itinerant transmitter: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAskarī, who settled in Rayy.
He reported ḥadith from ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣayrafī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā, Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī, al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār, and others of their tier.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Shaykh, Abū Bakr al-Qabbāb, Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān, Abū ʿAmr ibn Maṭar, and others.
Among his writings is the book “al-Sarāʾir,” along with additional works.
He passed away in 305 AH; some maintained that he died in 313 AH, in Rayy.
The last person to narrate from him before his death was Maʾmūn al-Rāzī.
Ibn Mardawayh states in his History: “Al-ʿAskarī was among the trustworthy; he possessed a reliable memory and authored works.”