Al-Ḥākim held him in great esteem and venerated him, saying, “He used to fast by day, pray through the night, and endure poverty with patience. Among the senior Ḥanafī scholars I have never seen anyone more devoted in worship than he.”

He would make the pilgrimage and join the military expeditions, and he was thoroughly versed in the madhhab. Setting out for Hajj, he died a stranger in Baghdad—may Allah have mercy on him and be pleased with him.

Al-Khaṭīb said, “Reliable; he passed away on the first of Ṣafar in 338 AH (1).”

He had given up issuing fatwas because he was occupied with worship, all while patiently bearing poverty. He lived on what his own hands earned, gave alms, preferred others to himself, performed Hajj every ten years, and went on campaign every three years (2). He transmitted hadith in great abundance.

He once said, “My son loves the world, yet Allah despises it; I cannot love anyone who loves what Allah despises.”

206 – al-Ḥaṣāʾirī, al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥabīb ibn ʿAbd al-Malik *
The imam, mufti of Damascus, its Qur’an instructor and principal hadith authority, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥabīb ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Dimashqī al-Ḥaṣāʾirī (3), a Shāfiʿī.