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. 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 (his father), Yaqub ibn Salem (his uncle), 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 (his brother), Hasan ibn Musa al-Khashshab, Musa ibn Qasim Bijli,
Abd al-Azim al-Hasani and others have narrated narrations from him. ==Belief==