It was also narrated by Jarir ibn Hazim and Mahdi ibn Maymun on his authority.

From Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, who said:
“I entered upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while al-Hasan and al-Husayn were playing on his chest. I asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, do you love them?’ He replied, ‘How could I not love them when they are my two basil plants from this worldly life.’”
Al-Tabarani recorded this in his Muʿjam (1).

Al-Harith also narrated from ʿAli, in a report traced back to the Prophet: “Al-Hasan and al-Husayn are the chiefs of the youths of Paradise (2).” It is likewise related from Shurayḥ, from ʿAli.

In this chapter there are supporting reports from Ibn ʿUmar, Ibn ʿAbbas, ʿUmar, Ibn Masʿud, Malik ibn al-Huwayrith, Abu Saʿid, Hudhayfah, Anas, and Jabir, through various chains that strengthen one another.

Musa ibn ʿUthman al-Hadrami— a partisan Shiʿi and a weak narrator—reported from al-Aʿmash, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayrah, who said:
“Al-Husayn was with the Prophet ﷺ, and he loved him with intense affection. He told him, ‘Go to your mother.’ I asked, ‘Shall I go with him?’ He said, ‘No.’ Then a flash of lightning appeared, and he walked in its light until he reached his mother (3).”

Wakiʿ related to us, saying: Rabiʿ ibn Saʿd told us, from ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Sabiṭ, from Jabir:
He said—while al-Husayn had entered the mosque—“Whoever wishes to look at the master of the youth…"