Muslim: Abū Hilāl narrated to us; I heard al-Ḥasan say:
“Moses, the Prophet of Allah—peace be upon him—would never bathe except in private.”
Ibn Buraydah asked him, “From whom did you hear this?”
He answered, “From Abū Hurayrah.” (1)
Yūnus and ʿAlī ibn Judʿān said, “Al-Ḥasan did not hear anything directly from Abū Hurayrah.” (2)
Hammām, from Qatādah, from al-Ḥasan:
“I heard ʿUthmān—may Allah be pleased with him—say in his sermon (I think he said): ‘Kill the dogs and the pigeons.’”
Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥāb, from al-Ḥasan:
“I witnessed ʿUthmān on successive Fridays ordering that the pigeons be slaughtered and the dogs killed.”
ʿAffān related: Mubārak ibn Faḍālah—and another narrator—transmitted from al-Ḥasan the same report.
Bahz ibn Asad: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād narrated to us, from Yūnus, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
“I saw ʿUthmān sleeping in the mosque. When the muʾadhdhin came to him, he rose, and I noticed the imprint of the pebbles on his side.”
Ḥammād ibn Zayd, from Ayyūb, who said: “I heard al-Ḥasan say:
‘ʿUthmān came out to us, confusion broke out among them, and they started pelting one another with pebbles.’”
And Abū Mūsā related, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
“I was present one Friday when ʿUthmān stood to deliver the sermon. A man rose and said, ‘I adjure you by the Book of Allah!’ ʿUthmān replied, ‘Sit down. Is there no one besides you who will invoke the Book of Allah?’ So the man sat. Then he—or perhaps another man—stood and repeated the same words. ʿUthmān said to him, ‘Sit down. Is there no one besides you who will invoke the Book of Allah?’ He refused to sit, so ʿUthmān sent the guards to make him sit. The people rose and placed themselves between the guards and the man, and they began hurling gravel (3) at one another until someone exclaimed, ‘I can scarcely see the sky for all the stones!’”