A voice in the chain
عاصم الأحول
عاصم بن سليمان
Appears in 248 hadith across the six canonical collections.
An abridged path through the isnād
From the Prophet ﷺ to the written books
مُحَمَّد ﷺ
The Messenger
Immediate teacher layer
Received from
عاصم الأحول
Selected narrator
Immediate student layer
Passed onward to
Preserved in the six books
صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari
59
صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
75
سنن أبي داود
Sunan Abi Dawud
25
جامع الترمذي
Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi
24
سنن النسائي
Sunan an-Nasa’i
37
سنن ابن ماجه
Sunan Ibn Majah
28
Historical scholarship
Classical assessments
Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani
ثقة
Al-Dhahabi
قال أحمد : ثقة من الحفاظ
Life & identity
Biographical notes
- Kunya
- أبو عبد الرحمن ، وقيل : أبو عبد الله
- Laqab
- الأحول ، الحافظ
- Lineage / nisba
- البصري ، التميمي مولاهم ، الأحول ، الحافظ ، القاضي
- Generation
- الرابعة
- Died
- 141 هـ ، أو : 142 هـ ، أو : 143 هـ
- Lived in
- الكوفة ، المدائن ، البصرة
- Relatives
- مولى بني تميم ، ويقال مولى عثمان ، ويقال مولى آل زياد
Teachers in the transmission
Received from
Students in the transmission
Passed onward to
The written record
Hadith in this narrator’s chain
Bukhari · 170لَأَنْ تَكُونَ عِنْدِي شَعَرَةٌ مِنْهُ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَاI said to 'Abida, "I have some of the hair of the Prophet (ﷺ) which I got from Anas or from his family." 'Abida replied. "No doubt if I had a single hair of that it would have been dearer to me than the whole world and w5 narratorsBukhari · 616خَطَبَنَا ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ فِي يَوْمٍ رَدْغٍ ، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ حَيَّ عَلَى الصَّلَاةِ ، فَأَمَرَهُ أَنْ يُنَادِيَ الصَّلَاةُ فِي الرِّحَالِ ، فَنَظَرَ الْقَوْمُ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ ، فَقَالَ : فَعَلَ هَذAllah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "If the people knew the reward for pronouncing the Adhan and for standing in the first row (in congregational prayers) and found no other way to get that except by drawing lots they would draw7 narratorsBukhari · 668خَطَبَنَا ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي رَدْغٍ ، فَأَمَرَ الْمُؤَذِّنَ لَمَّا بَلَغَ حَيَّ عَلَى الصَّلَاةِ ، قَالَ : قُلِ الصَّلَاةُ فِي الرِّحَالِ ، فَنَظَرَ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ فَكَأَنَّهُمْ أَنْكَرُوا ، فَقَالَIbn `Abbas addressed us on a (rainy and) muddy day and when the Mu'adh-dhin said, "Come for the prayer" Ibn `Abbas ordered him to say, "Pray in your homes." The people began to look at one another with surprise as if the9 narrators·parallel chainBukhari · 728قُمْتُ لَيْلَةً أُصَلِّي عَنْ يَسَارِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، فَأَخَذَ بِيَدِي أَوْ بِعَضُدِي حَتَّى أَقَامَنِي عَنْ يَمِينِهِ ، وَقَالَ : بِيَدِهِ مِنْ وَرَائِيOne night I stood to the left of the Prophet (ﷺ) in the prayer but he caught hold of me by the hand or by the shoulder (arm) till he made me stand on his right and beckoned with his hand (for me) to go from behind (him).5 narratorsBukhari · 971كُنَّا نُؤْمَرُ أَنْ نَخْرُجَ يَوْمَ الْعِيدِ حَتَّى نُخْرِجَ الْبِكْرَ مِنْ خِدْرِهَا حَتَّى نُخْرِجَ الْحُيَّضَ فَيَكُنَّ خَلْفَ النَّاسِ ، فَيُكَبِّرْنَ بِتَكْبِيرِهِمْ وَيَدْعُونَ بِدُعَائِهِمْ يَرْجُونَ بَرَكَةَ ذَلWe used to be ordered to come out on the Day of 'Id and even bring out the virgin girls from their houses and menstruating women so that they might stand behind the men and say Takbir along with them and invoke Allah alo5 narratorsBukhari · 1002سَأَلْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ عَنِ الْقُنُوتِ ، فَقَالَ : قَدْ كَانَ الْقُنُوتُ ، قُلْتُ : قَبْلَ الرُّكُوعِ أَوْ بَعْدَهُ ؟ ، قَالَ : قَبْلَهُ ، قَالَ : فَإِنَّ فُلَانًا أَخْبَرَنِي عَنْكَ أَنَّكَ قُلْتَ بَعْدَ الرُّكُI asked Anas bin Malik about the Qunut. Anas replied, "Definitely it was (recited)". I asked, "Before bowing or after it?" Anas replied, "Before bowing." I added, "So and so has told me that you had informed him that it 4 narratorsBukhari · 1080أَقَامَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ يَقْصُرُ ، فَنَحْنُ إِذَا سَافَرْنَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ قَصَرْنَا وَإِنْ زِدْنَا أَتْمَمْنَاThe Prophet (ﷺ) once stayed for nineteen days and prayed shortened prayers. So when we travel led (and stayed) for nineteen days, we used to shorten the prayer but if we traveled (and stayed) for a longer period we used 6 narratorsBukhari · 1284إِنَّ لِلَّهِ مَا أَخَذَ وَلَهُ مَا أَعْطَى وَكُلٌّ عِنْدَهُ بِأَجَلٍ مُسَمًّى ، فَلْتَصْبِرْ وَلْتَحْتَسِبْ ، فَأَرْسَلَتْ إِلَيْهِ تُقْسِمُ عَلَيْهِ لَيَأْتِيَنَّهَا ، فَقَامَ وَمَعَهُ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ ، وَمَعَاذُThe daughter of the Prophet (p.b.u.h) sent (a messenger) to the Prophet (ﷺ) requesting him to come as her child was dying (or was gasping), but the Prophet (ﷺ) returned the messenger and told him to convey his greeting t6 narratorsBukhari · 1300قَنَتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ شَهْرًا حِينَ قُتِلَ الْقُرَّاءُ ، فَمَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَزِنَ حُزْنًا قَطُّ أَشَدَّ مِنْهُWhen the reciters of Qur'an were martyred, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) recited Qunut for one month and I never saw him (i.e. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)) so sad as he was on that day.4 narratorsBukhari · 1637سَقَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ زَمْزَمَ ، فَشَرِبَ وَهُوَ قَائِمٌI gave Zamzam water to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and he drank it while standing. 'Asia (a sub-narrator) said that `Ikrima took the oath that on that day the Prophet (ﷺ) had not been standing but riding a camel.5 narratorsBukhari · 1648حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَاصِمٌ ، قال : قُلْتُ لِأَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ : " كُنْتُمْ تَكْرَهُونَ السَّعْيَ بَيْنَ الصَّفَا والمروة ؟ , قال I asked Anas bin Malik "Did you use to dislike to perform Tawaf between Safa and Marwa?" He said, "Yes, as it was of the ceremonies of the days of the Pre-Islamic period of ignorance, till Allah revealed 'Verily! (The tw4 narratorsBukhari · 1867الْمَدِينَةُ حَرَمٌ مِنْ كَذَا إِلَى كَذَا ، لَا يُقْطَعُ شَجَرُهَا ، وَلَا يُحْدَثُ فِيهَا حَدَثٌ مَنْ أَحْدَثَ حَدَثًا ، فَعَلَيْهِ لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَThe Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Medina is a sanctuary from that place to that. Its trees should not be cut and no heresy should be innovated nor any sin should be committed in it, and whoever innovates in it an heresy or commits 4 narrators