he said—“Al-Hasan ibn ʿAlī remarked, ‘Food is too insignificant a matter to be apportioned by swearing oaths over it.’”

Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad narrated, from his father, that al-Hasan and al-Ḥusayn used to accept the gifts that Muʿāwiyah sent them.

Abū Nuʿaym relates: Musāfir the plasterer told us, from Ruzayq (1) ibn Sawwār, who said: “A dispute arose between al-Hasan and Marwān. Marwān spoke harshly to him while al-Hasan remained silent; then Marwān blew his nose into his right hand. Al-Hasan said, ‘Woe to you! Do you not know that the right hand is for the face and the left hand is for one’s private parts? Fie upon you!’ Marwān then fell silent (2).”

And Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī reported that ʿUmar enrolled al-Hasan and al-Ḥusayn in the same fixed stipend as their father, together with the veterans of Badr, because of their kinship to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

Ibn Saʿd states: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad told us, from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from ʿAmmār ibn Abī ʿAmmār, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “Al-Hasan and al-Ḥusayn mounted together in the presence of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he kept saying, ‘Come on, Ḥasan—take it, Ḥasan!’ ʿĀʾishah said, ‘Are you favouring the elder one?’ He replied, ‘Gabriel is saying: Take it, Ḥusayn (3).’”

Shaybān transmits, from Abū Isḥāq, from Ḥārithah ibn Muḍarrib: “I heard al-Hasan say, ‘By Allah, I will not accept your pledge of allegiance except on the condition I state to you.’ They asked, ‘What is it?’ He said, ‘That you make peace with whoever I make peace, and fight whoever I fight.’”

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Madaʾinī said, on the authority of Khallād ibn ʿUbaydah, from ʿAlī ibn