—the Judhami, the Egyptian, the Jarawi.
He received an ijāza from Ḍamrah ibn Rabīʿah, and he heard from Ayyūb ibn Suwayd, Bishr ibn Bakr al-Tinnīsī, ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah, Abū Mushir al-Ghassānī, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Bukhārī, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, al-Sarrāj, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Maḥāmilī, his grandson Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Jarawī, and many others.
Abū Ḥātim said: “He is trustworthy.” (1)
al-Dāraquṭnī said: “He is above trustworthy; no one comparable to him in virtue and asceticism has been seen.” (2)
al-Khaṭīb said: “He is noted for piety and reliability, and is characterized by worship.” (3)
Jaʿfar said: I heard my grandfather al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz say, “Whoever is not restrained by the Quran and by death, then (4) even if the mountains were to crash against one another before his very eyes, he will still not refrain.” (5)
It was said that al-Ḥasan was taken to Iraq after his brother was killed, and he remained there until he died in 257 AH.
Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad said: “Al-Ḥasan’s inheritance—one hundred thousand dinars—was sent to him,