three hundred and sixty glances; if He takes someone to task, He does so with full justice, and if He forgives, He forgives out of forbearance. So beware of Allah.

Ḥajjāj answered, “Do not ask me for anything but that I will grant it to you.”

Muhammad said, “And you will actually do that?”

He replied, “Yes.”

He said, “Ṣurm al-dahr (a lifelong reprieve).” (1)

Al-Thawrī narrates—from Mughīrah, from his father—that Ḥajjāj once tried to place his foot on the Maqām (the Station of Abraham), but Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah rebuked and stopped him (2).

Isrāʾīl transmitted: Thuwair told us, “I saw Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah dyeing (his hair) with henna and katam” (3).

Abū Mālik related that he saw Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah stone the Jamarāt while mounted on a dappled grey palfrey (4).

Al-Thawrī also narrated—from al-Shaybānī: “I saw Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah at ʿArafah wearing a yellow khazz cloak” (5).

Rushdīn ibn Kurayb said: “I saw Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah wearing a black turban, letting its tail hang down a span or a little less” (5).

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ayman said: “I saw a black turban on Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah” (6).

Someone asked Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, “Why do you dye (your hair)?”

He replied, “I beautify myself with it for women” (6).

Abū Nuʿaym reported: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ayman told us, “My father sent me to Muhammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, and I found him wearing kohl, his beard dyed a reddish color. I returned and said to my father, ‘You sent me…’”