Abū Ghassān Muḥammad ibn Muṭarrif.

Whoever claimed that al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated from him was mistaken—how could that be?!

Al-Awzāʿī said, “I have never seen anyone more devoted to good works than Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah.”

It was also said that Ḥassān was from the people of Beirut.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy.

Yet he was accused of holding qadar—the doctrine of the Qadariyya.

Marwān ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāṭarī transmitted this accusation from Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. When al-Awzāʿī heard Saʿīd’s words, he remarked, “How deluded Saʿīd is before Allah! I have never met anyone more earnest or harder-working than Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah.”

Ḍamrah reported from Rajāʾ ibn Abī Salamah, who heard Yūnus ibn Sayf say, “Only two ‘rams’ of the Qadariyya remain, and one of them is Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah.”

ʿUqbah ibn ʿAlqamah also narrated from al-Awzāʿī, mentioning some of Ḥassān’s virtues.

Al-Walīd ibn Mizyad said, “I heard al-Awzāʿī say, ‘Ḥassān once owned a flock of sheep. When he learned of the reports concerning the manāʾiḥ (1), he gave them away.’

“I asked, ‘What was it that he heard?’

“He replied, ‘One day for him and one day for his neighbour.’”

ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ṣanʿānī likewise related from al-Awzāʿī that, “Whenever Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah performed the ʿaṣr prayer, he would remain in the mosque remembering Allah—Exalted is He—until the sun had set.”