41. ʿAbd Allah narrated to us. He said: Muhammad ibn al-Husayn related to me, from Hakim ibn Jaʿfar, who said—adding that it was plainly audible—that ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Zayd said to me:

“If you had seen al-Hasan, you would have thought that the sorrow of all creation had been poured upon him, so persistent was that tear and so frequent those sobs. And if you had seen Yazid al-Raqashi, you would have said, ‘A man under affliction.’”