Judʿān, who said: “Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī performed the pilgrimage on foot fifteen times, while elite riding camels were led alongside him. He relinquished all of his wealth twice, and on three occasions he divided his property with Allah, giving half away in charity.”

Al-Wāqidī relates: Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from his father, that ʿAlī said:
“Al-Ḥasan kept marrying and divorcing until I feared he would bequeath us enmity among the tribes. People of Kūfa, do not marry your daughters to him, for he is a habitual divorcer.”

A man from Hamdān replied, “By Allah, we shall still marry him off: if he is pleased, he keeps the wife; if he dislikes her, he divorces her.” (1)

Al-Madāʾinī said, “Al-Ḥasan married ninety women.”

Shurayk, from ʿĀṣim (2), from Abū Razīn, said:
“Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī delivered a sermon to us wearing black clothes and a black turban.”

Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah: Mukhawwal narrated to us, from Abū Saʿīd (3):
“Abū Rāfiʿ came to Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī while he was praying with his hair tied up; Abū Rāfiʿ untied it and let it fall.

Al-Ḥasan asked, ‘What made you do that?’

He replied, ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “A man must not pray with his hair knotted up.”’ (4)

Ibn Jurayj transmitted a similar report from ʿImrān ibn Mūsā; Saʿīd al-Maqburī informed me that Abū Rāfiʿ passed by Al-Ḥasan when he had pinned his braid to the back of his neck, so he loosened it, and Al-Ḥasan turned