—the Ansari.

Others maintain that he was the freedman of Abū al-Yasar Kaʿb ibn ʿAmr al-Sulamī. This was asserted by ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Muṭahhar, who cited Ghāḍirah bint Qarhad ⦗1⦘ al-ʿAwfiyyah. He went on to state that Hasan’s mother was the freedwoman of Umm Salamah, Mother of the Believers, of the Makhzūm clan.

A different opinion holds that Hasan himself was the freedman of Jamīl ibn Quṭbah ⦗2⦘.

Yasār, Hasan’s father, had been taken captive at Maysān ⦗3⦘. He settled in Medina, was manumitted, and married there during ʿUmar’s caliphate; Hasan—may Allah have mercy on him—was born in that city two years before ʿUmar’s rule came to an end. His mother’s name was Khayrah.

Hasan was then brought up in Wādī al-Qurā. He attended the Friday prayer with ʿUthmān, heard him deliver the sermon, and was present on the Day of the House when he was fourteen years old.

Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Nuṣayr reported that Hasan al-Basrī’s mother had been captured at Maysān while pregnant with him and that she gave birth to him in Medina.

Suwayd ibn Saʿīd narrated—Abū Karib told me—that Hasan and Ibn Sīrīn were both freedmen of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah and that they came to Basra in the company of Anas. I say: both of these reports are anomalous ⦗4⦘.

Muḥammad ibn Sallām said: Abū ʿAmr al-Shaʿʿāb related to us with his chain, saying: Umm Salamah used to send Hasan’s mother on errands; when the child cried, she would quiet him by nursing him herself.