the people gathered; al-Hasan rose and said, “I only collected it for the poor.” Half of the crowd then stood up. (1)

Al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Huddānī reported: Abu Hārūn narrated to us, saying, “We set out for the pilgrimage, and when we entered Madinah we visited al-Hasan. We told him about our journey and our circumstances. After we left, he sent 400 dirhams to each one of us.

“We went back to inform him that we were actually well-off, but he said, ‘Do not return my kindness. Had I been in any other state, what I gave you would have seemed little. In any case, let me send you off with this provision: indeed Allah boasts before His angels of His servants on the Day of ʿArafah.’ (2)

Al-Madāʾinī said: Al-Hasan was married to ninety women.

Al-Wāqidī related: Ibn Abī Sabrah told us, from Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said, “Six hundred of us set out for the encounter at the Camel. When we reached al-Rabadha, al-Hasan stood and wept. ʿAlī said, ‘Speak, and stop wailing like a slave-girl.’

“Al-Hasan replied, ‘I had advised you to stay, and I still advise it now. The Arabs will have their turn; once their scattered thoughts return to them, they will spur their camels toward you until they drag you out even if you were in the hole of a lizard.’

“ʿAlī said, ‘Do you think—may you be bereft—that I have been waiting the way a hyena lies in wait for a carcass? (3)’

Isrāʾīl narrated from Abū Isḥāq, from Hubayrah ibn Yarīm, who said: It was said to ʿAlī, ‘Here is al-Hasan in the mosque addressing the people.’ He replied, ‘It is the grinding of camels that have never learned to grind.’

Shuʿbah narrated from Abū Isḥāq, from Maʿdikarib, that ʿAlī passed by a group who had