Ali ibn Asbat
Abul Hasan Ali ibn Asbat ibn Salem Kufi Baya al-Zati Kandi was one of the Shia narrators and companions of Ali al-Rida and Muhammad al-Jawad. He narrated Hadiths from Ali al-Rida, Jamil ibn Darraj, Husayn ibn Zararah, and Muhammad ibn Sinan. People like Musa ibn Ja'far Baghdadi and Muhammad ibn Hussein ibn Abi al-Khattab narrated from him.
Ali ibn Asbat was from Kufa, from the Kinda tribe.
Life and family
Ali ibn Asbat was a Muhaddith, Moqri and Shia commentator and worked in the clothing business. His father, Asbat ibn Salem was from the Kinda (tribe) and one of the narrators of Ja'far al-Sadiq and Musa al-Kazim. His brother Hussein ibn Asbat was a narrator of Ali al-Ridha and his uncle Yaqub ibn Salem al-Ahmar was considered a reliable and trustworthy narrator.According to the scholars of Rijal, he was one of the companions and narrators of Muhammad al-Jawad. He learned jurisprudence and hadith from Ali al-Ridha. And through the intermediary of al-Sadiq, he has narrated the hadiths of Muhammad. He has narrated about 387 hadiths.
His hadiths from Ali al-Ridha are related to various jurisprudential issues, such as certainty, humility, sins, buying and selling, Istikhara prayer, interpretation of some verses, and affordability.
Ali ibn Asbat was a agent of Muhammad al-Jawad in Egypt. An account by the Twelver traditionist Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni describes how Ali ibn Asbat visited Muhammad al-Jawad on behalf of the Egyptian Imamites.
Ibn Asbat narrated hadith from people such as Asbat ibn Salem, Yaqub ibn Salem, Abdullah ibn Bakir, Abdullah ibn Sinan, Abdullah ibn al-Mughira, Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Faddal, Ali ibn Abi Hamza al-Bata'ini, and many others. Hussein ibn Asbat, Hasan ibn Musa al-Khashshab, Musa ibn Qasim Bijli, Abd al-Azim al-Hasani and others have narrated narrations from him.
Belief
Ibn Asbat belonged to the Fathi religion and there are two opinions about his change of religion and belief:Some have said that Ali ibn Mahziar wrote a treatise rejecting ibn Asbat religion and called him to the truth, but it was not effective, and he died with the same opinion.
Some others say that letters were exchanged between ali ibn Asbat and Ali ibn Mahziar about Ali ibn-Asbat religion until he went to the service of Muhammad al-Javad, and there he changed his Fathite belief. It is stated in more sources that this case is stronger.
Work
His works include: Tafsir al-Qur'an, Al-Dalael, Al-Nawader, Al-Mazar, the comprehensive collection of hadiths and originals.The hadith book was narrated by Zabian ibn Hakim and the original book was narrated by Ibn Abi Umayr.
Al-Nawader book is the narration of al-Sheikh Harun ibn Musa on the authority of Abi al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Saeed al-Hamdani.