the angels would greet me. He said, “When I had myself cauterized, that greeting stopped; but when I abandoned cauterization it returned to me.” ⦗1⦘

ʿImrān campaigned with the Prophet ﷺ on more than one occasion. He would stay in the lands of his own tribe and travel back and forth to Medina.

Abū Khushayna narrated from al-Ḥakam ibn al-Aʿraj, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, who said: “Since I pledged my right hand in allegiance to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I have never touched my private part with that hand.” ⦗2⦘

Hishām transmitted from Muḥammad, who said: “No one who ever came to Basra was considered superior to ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn.” ⦗3⦘

Qatādah said: “It has reached me that ʿImrān said, ‘I wish I were ashes scattered by the wind.’” ⦗4⦘

I say: He was among those who kept aloof from the civil strife and did not fight alongside ʿAlī.

Ayyūb narrated from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, from Abū Qatādah: ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn said to me, “Stay close to your mosque.”

I asked, “What if someone forces his way in?”

He replied, “Then stay inside your house.”

I asked, “What if he enters my house?”

He said, “If a man were to break in on me seeking my life and my property, I would consider that I have—”