It was transmitted by Yunus b. ʿUbayd and others on the authority of al-Hasan.

Khalid b. Khidāsh reported: Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī narrated to us, from Yunus, who said:

When death came to al-Hasan he kept repeating the words of istirjāʿ—“We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return.” His son drew near and said, “Father, you have distressed us; have you seen something?” He replied, “It is my own soul; I have never been afflicted with anything like this.”

Hishām b. Ḥassān said: We were with Muḥammad (Ibn Sīrīn) on a Thursday evening when a man entered after the ʿAṣr prayer and said, “Al-Hasan has died.” Muḥammad invoked mercy for him, his color changed, and he fell silent; he did not speak again until the sun had set, and the people likewise kept silent out of respect for the grief they saw in him.

I say: Muḥammad b. Sīrīn lived only one hundred days after al-Hasan.

Ibn ʿUlayyah said: Al-Hasan died in Rajab, in the year 110 AH.

ʿAbd Allah b. al-Hasan said: My father lived about eighty-eight years.

I add: He passed away at the beginning of Rajab, and his funeral was thronged with people. The prayer over him was performed immediately after the Friday prayer in Basra; the crowds escorted him and pressed around him so heavily that the ʿAṣr prayer could not be held in the main mosque.

It is also related that he lost consciousness, then came to briefly and said, “You have awakened me from gardens and flowing rivers and a place of honor!”

I note: The critics have differed over whether one may adduce the collection transmitted by al-Hasan from Samura as proof. It contains about fifty hadiths. His hearing from Samura is, however, established—he himself stated that he heard from him the hadith on the ʿaqīqah (1).

ʿAffān said: Hammām narrated to us, from Qatādah, who said: Al-Hasan told me, from Hayyāj b