His father, Asbat ibn Salem was from the Kinda tribe and one of the narrators of ja'far al-Sadiq and Musa al-Kazim.
According to the scholars of Rijal, Ali ibn Asbat was also one of the companions and narrators of Muhammad al-Jawad.
His hadiths from Ali al-Ridha are related to various jurisprudential issues, such as certainty, humility, sins, buying and selling, Salat al-Istikharah, interpretation of some Quran verses etc.
[5] Ibn Asbat belonged to the Fathites and there are two opinions about his change of religion and belief: Some have said that Ali ibn Mahziar Ahvazi wrote a treatise rejecting al-Asbat's religion and called him to the truth, but it was not effective.
[8] There is no information about the exact time of Ali bin Asbat's death, but he was alive until the middle of the third century.