Among the prayers he would make was the following: “O Allah, I seek refuge in You from taking pride in anything that involves disobeying You, and from adorning myself before people with what would disgrace me in Your sight.”
Ḥassān lived on until roughly the year 130 AH. Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “He was a Qadarī.” I reply, “Perhaps he later renounced that view and repented.”
- Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd ibn Qays ibn ʿAmr al-Anṣārī (ʿ)
It is also said that his name is Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd ibn Qays ibn Qahd. He was an imam, a prodigious scholar, an exacting master, the foremost authority of Madinah in his day, the teacher of the city’s leading scholar, and a direct pupil of the Seven Jurists. He was known as Abū Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, al-Khazrajī, al-Najjārī, al-Madanī, and he served as judge.
Birth: before 70 AH, during the rule of Ibn al-Zubayr.
He received hadith from: Anas ibn Mālik, al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd, Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thawbān, ʿAmrah bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿUbayd ibn Ḥunayn, Nāfiʿ al-ʿUmarī, Ibn Shihāb, the jurist Sulaymān ibn Yasār, Bashīr ibn Yasār, Saʿīd ibn Yasār—his brother—al-Aʿraj, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Rabīʿah, Ḥanẓalah ibn Qays, al-Nuʿmān ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh, Abū Ṣāliḥ Dhakwān, ʿAbbād ibn Tamīm, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Zuhri—despite al-Zuhri’s seniority—, Ibn Abī Dhīʾb, Shuʿbah, Mālik, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, al-Awzāʿī, and Ḥammād