Qays administered the poison to al-Ḥasan, and he fell gravely ill; a basin would be set beneath him and then taken away, another put in its place, and so it went on for about forty days.

Ibn ʿUyaynah transmitted—from Raqabah ibn Maṣqalah (1)—that when al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī was at the point of death he said, “Carry my bedding into the courtyard.” They carried it out, whereupon he prayed: “O Allah, I seek Your reward for the loss of my own soul, for it is the dearest soul to me.”

Al-Wāqidī reported: ʿAbd Allah ibn Nāfiʿ told us, on the authority of his father, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said, “I was present at al-Ḥasan’s death. I said to al-Ḥusayn, ‘Fear Allah; do not ignite turmoil or shed blood. Bury your brother beside his mother, for that is what he entrusted to you.’”

Abū ʿAwānah—through Ḥuṣayn, from Abū Ḥāzim—narrated that when death approached al-Ḥasan he said to al-Ḥusayn, “Bury me beside my father—meaning the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace—unless you fear bloodshed; then bury me in the Muslims’ cemetery.”

When he passed away, al-Ḥusayn donned his weapons and gathered his followers. Abū Hurayrah said to him, “I adjure you by Allah and by your brother’s final charge, for the people will not leave you until blood is spilt between you.”

So al-Ḥusayn buried him in al-Baqīʿ. Abū Hurayrah then said, “Tell me: if the son of Moses had been brought to be buried beside his father and was prevented, would that have been an injustice to him?” They replied, “Yes.” He said, “Then behold, the son of Allah’s Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, has been brought to be buried beside his father.”

It is also related from a man who said: Abū Hurayrah once, on the day al-Ḥasan was buried, declared, “May Allah fight Marwān!” Marwān had said, “By Allah, I will never allow the son of Abū Turāb to be buried alongside the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and grant him peace, while ʿUthmān lies in al-Baqīʿ.”

Al-Wāqidī further narrated: ʿUbayd Allah ibn Mirdās told us, on the authority of his father, from al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, who said: “Al-Ḥasan kept advising al-Ḥusayn, ‘My brother, beware of shedding blood, for people are quick to plunge into strife.’”

When he died, Medina resounded with lamentation, so that no