105 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥasan, son of al-Sayyid Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Hāshimī (D, T, S) (1)—a Ḥasanid, a Medinan, an emir, the man who rose in revolt against al-Manṣūr together with his brother Ibrāhīm.

He transmitted hadith from Nāfiʿ and Abū al-Zinād.

Narrating from him are: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Makhramī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nāfiʿ al-Ṣāʾigh.

Al-Nasāʾī and others judged him trustworthy.

Al-Manṣūr performed the Hajj in 144 AH, appointing Riyāḥ al-Murrī as governor of Medina; he was uneasy because the two sons of Ḥasan had failed to present themselves to him.

It is said that when al-Manṣūr had previously gone on pilgrimage—before the days of al-Saffāḥ—then, as Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh related, when the Banū Hāshim convened in Mecca to decide whom they should pledge to as caliph after the Umayyad order had begun to collapse, al-Manṣūr was among those who swore allegiance to me.

Al-Manṣūr asked Ziyād, the governor of Medina, about the two sons of Ḥasan. Ziyād replied, “Why trouble yourself about them? I will bring them to you.”

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿImrān reported: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿUbayda ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmmār told us: When al-Manṣūr assumed the caliphate he had no concern save the pursuit of Muḥammad and gathering information about him.

He summoned the Banū Hāshim one by one, secluded himself with each of them and questioned him. Each would say, “Commander of the Faithful, he already knows that you know he once sought this authority; he fears you, and at present he has no wish to oppose you.”