A report with the same wording was also transmitted by Mālik ibn Mighwal.
Misʿar said: One of the governors once sent Abū Ḥaṣīn two thousand dirhams while he was in straitened circumstances, but he sent them back. I asked him, “Why did you refuse them?” He replied, “Out of modesty and self-respect.”
Ibn ʿUyaynah said: Whenever Abū Ḥaṣīn was asked about a question, he would answer, “I have no knowledge of it; Allah knows best.”
Abū Shihāb al-Ḥannāṭ reported: I heard Abū Ḥaṣīn say, “A man today will issue a legal verdict on a matter which, had it arisen in the time of ʿUmar, he would have assembled the veterans of Badr to consult about.”
Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAskarī stated: Abū Ḥaṣīn had teachings read to him in the Great Mosque of Kūfah for fifty years.
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: He left no male offspring; he had a daughter and a granddaughter, and Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ married the latter.
Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh related: I visited Abū Ḥaṣīn during the illness from which he died. He lost consciousness, then came to and began reciting, “We did not wrong them; rather, they were the wrongdoers” (Quran 43:76). He fainted again, regained consciousness, and kept repeating the verse, and he remained in that state.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and Khalīfah said: Abū Ḥaṣīn died in 127 AH. Al-Wāqidī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī, Abū ʿUbayd, Ibn Bukayr, Ibn Numayr, and others said: 128 AH—and this is the correct date. Ibn Abī Khaythamah, however, transmitted from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn an isolated report that he died in 132 AH.
Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn al-Tamīmī told us—both at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn and in the city—from ʿAbd