And Ibn Abī Khaythamah reported from Yaḥyā that he said, “Reliable.”

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Junayd likewise related from Yaḥyā: “Trustworthy, dependable.”

Aḥmad ibn Abī Maryam narrated from Yaḥyā: “Reliable; his transmissions are sound.”

ʿAbbās transmitted from Yaḥyā: “The legal opinion of Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ and al-Awzāʿī deserves to be recorded; these men are reliable.” (1)

ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd conveyed from Yaḥyā that he said, “The two sons of Ṣāliḥ are both trustworthy and reliable.”

Abū Zurʿah said, “In Ḥasan were combined precision, jurisprudence, worship, and asceticism.”

Abū Ḥātim remarked, “Reliable, an accurate ḥāfiẓ.”

Al-Nasāʾī said, “Trustworthy.”

Al-Sājī reported—through Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal—that Wakīʿ said, “Al-Ḥasan narrated to us.”

Someone asked him, “Which Ḥasan?” He replied, “Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ—if you were to see him you would remember Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, or you would take him for Saʿīd ibn Jubayr.”

I (the author) say: the two men share a common trait—knowledge, worship, and rising up against tyrants as a matter of faith.

Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī said, “I heard Wakīʿ say, ‘Whoever has seen Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ need not mind if he never sees Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym.’ ”

Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Awdī reported from Abū Yazīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muṣʿab al-Maʿnī: “I kept company with the masters—Sufyān al-Thawrī (2); I kept company with the two sons of Ḥayy, ʿAlī and Ḥasan; and I kept company with Wuhaib ibn al-Ward (3).”