217 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us; Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdala, from Zirr ibn Ḥubaysh, from Ibn Masʿūd, who said:

“The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—was such that Ḥasan and Ḥusayn would spring onto his back. When people tried to remove them, he said, ‘Leave them—may my father and mother be their ransom. Whoever loves me should love these two.’”