From Abū Shaʿthāʾ who said, “If I were ever put to the test by being appointed to the judiciary, I would mount my riding-beast and flee.” (1)

Aḥmad, al-Fallās, al-Bukhārī and others said: Abū Shaʿthāʾ died in the year 93 AH. A solitary opinion maintains that he died in 103 AH. His ḥadiths are recorded in the well-known canonical collections.

185 – al-Ḥasan, grandson of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ * (S)

The noble Sayyid Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan, son of the Commander of the Believers Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Hāshimī, the ʿAlawī, the Madinan, the Imām, Abū Muḥammad.

He narrated from his father and from ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar.

Although truthful and of exalted standing, he transmitted only a few reports and issued few legal opinions.

Those who reported from him include his son ʿAbd Allah; his cousin al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah; Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ; al-Walīd ibn Kathīr; Fuḍayl ibn Marzūq; Isḥāq ibn Yasār—the father of Muḥammad—and others.

Ibn ʿAjlān relates—through Suhayl and Saʿīd, the freedman of al-Muhri—from Ḥasan ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī: that he saw a man standing at the dwelling that houses the grave of the Prophet ﷺ, invoking blessings upon him and praying