It was transmitted by al-Humaydī from Sufyān in the wording: “He used to compile the reports of the Sabaʾiyya.”
Al-ʿIjlī said, “Both of them are reliable.”
Abū Usāma narrated to us that one of the two was a Shiʿi, while the other was a Murjiʾi.
Juwayriya ibn Asmāʾ reported that Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik sent someone who secretly gave Abū Hāshim poison, and that occurred in the year 98 AH.
I say: He died in the prime of life.
It is also said that ʿAbd Allāh was the first to compose anything on irjāʾ (postponement of judgment).
- al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyya al-Hāshimī
The Imām, Abū Muḥammad al-Hāshimī.
He was the more eminent and virtuous of the two brothers.
He transmitted from his father, Ibn ʿAbbās, Jābir, Salama ibn al-Akwaʿ, Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, and several others.
Those who reported from him include al-Zuhrī, ʿUmar ibn Dīnār, Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda, and a number of others.
He was counted among the scholars of the Prophet’s Household. ʿAmr ibn Dīnār said:
“I have never seen anyone more knowledgeable about the disputed matters among people than al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad; your al-Zuhrī was nothing but a lad among his pupils.”
Khalīfa ibn Khayyāṭ (1) said: “He died in the year 100 AH, or the year before it.”
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mirdāwī informed us; Abū Muḥammad ibn Qudāma informed us; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭūsī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us; Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Khaṭīb of Ḥarrān, together with a group, informed us; and Sunqur ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us