So Muʿāwiyah sent someone to shackle him and throw him into prison; he died and was buried with his fetters still on, saying, “I shall plead my case.” (1)

Hammād ibn Salamah narrated—Humayd and Yūnus conveying it from al-Ḥasan—that Ziyād appointed al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAmr. ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn met him and said, “Do you not remember that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ learned of the man whose commander had ordered him, ‘Cast yourself into the fire,’ the man rose to comply, and the Prophet caught up with him and restrained him? The Prophet ﷺ then said, ‘Had he entered it he would have entered the Fire; there is no obedience to any created being if it involves disobedience to Allah.’”

Al-Ḥakam replied, “Indeed.”

ʿImrān said, “I only wished to remind you of that ḥadīth.” (2)

Jamīl ibn ʿUbayd al-Ṭāʾī reported—Abū al-Muʿallā narrating from al-Ḥasan—that al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAmr once said, “O plague, take me to yourself!”

Someone asked him, “Why would you say that, when the Prophet ﷺ said, ‘Let none of you wish for death’?”

He replied, “I wish to precede six things: the sale of judgments, the spread of police squads, the rule of mere boys, the shedding of blood, the severing of family ties, and a generation that will arise at the end of time who will turn the Quran into nothing but tunes.” (3)