with his household to Damascus. There, Yazīd treated him with honor and later returned him, together with his family, to Medina.

He also transmitted—sometimes as mursal reports—from his grandfather; from Ṣafiyya, Mother of the Believers (a narration recorded by both Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim); from Abū Hurayra; from ʿĀʾisha—his report from her appears in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim; from Abū Rāfiʿ; from his uncle al-Ḥasan; from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās; from Umm Salama; from al-Miswar ibn Makhrama; from Zaynab bint Abī Salama; and from a number of others.

Among the authorities he heard from were also Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Rāfiʿ, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, Saʿīd ibn Marjāna, Dhakwān—the freedman of ʿĀʾisha—and ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, who himself was not a prolific transmitter.

Those who received hadith from him include his sons—Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad, ʿUmar, Zayd (who was slain), and ʿAbd Allāh—together with al-Zuhrī, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtayba, Zayd ibn Aslam, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, Abū al-Zinād, ʿAlī ibn Juʿdān, Muslim al-Baṭīn, Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatāda ibn al-Nuʿmān—along with his father ʿUmar—al-Qaʿqāʿ ibn Ḥakīm, Abū al-Aswad, the ward of ʿUrwa, Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī, Abū Ḥāzim al-Aʿraj, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Hurmuz, Muḥammad ibn al-Furāt al-Tamīmī, al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr, and many others besides.

Abū Salama and Ṭāwūs—both of his own generation—also narrated from him.

Ibn Saʿd (1) said: “He is the younger ʿAlī; as for his brother, the elder ʿAlī, he was killed alongside their father at Karbalāʾ.”

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn was regarded as reliable and trustworthy, narrated a considerable number of hadiths, possessed high isnads, enjoyed elevated standing, and was deeply pious.

Ibn ʿUyayna reported from al-Zuhrī, who said, “I have never seen a Qurashī superior to ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn.” (2)