That year the pilgrims were led by Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ.
Those of note who passed away in the same year:
Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (1) – Abū Muḥammad al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī, the grandson (sibt) of the Messenger of Allah, son of his daughter Fāṭimah al-Zahrāʾ, the Prophet’s rayḥānah (sweet-scented darling), and the person whose face most closely resembled his.
He was born on the fifteenth of Ramadan in the third year after the Hijrah. The Messenger of Allah moistened a date with his own saliva and rubbed it on the infant’s palate, then named him Ḥasan. He was the eldest child of his parents.
The Messenger of Allah loved him deeply: he would kiss the little “zubaybah” (2) on his lip when he was small, sometimes suck on his tongue, embrace him, and play with him. More than once, while the Prophet was in prostration during prayer, Ḥasan would climb onto his back; the Prophet allowed him to stay there and lengthened the prostration for his sake. On occasion he even took him up to the pulpit with him.
An authentic report states that while the Prophet (peace be upon him) was delivering a sermon, he saw Ḥasan and Ḥusayn approaching. He stepped down, gathered them into his arms, ascended the pulpit with them, and said:
“Allah has spoken the truth: ‘Your wealth and your children are only a trial’ (Qur’an 64:15). I saw these two sons of mine walking and stumbling, and I could not keep myself from descending to them.” (3)
He then added:
“You are among the fragrance of Allah, yet you make people miserly and cowardly.” (4)
It is further recorded in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (5) from Abū ʿĀṣim, from ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn, from Ibn
(1) Bibliography: Nisab Quraysh; Tabaqat al-Khulafa (d. 8, 822, 1482, 1968); Musnad Aḥmad (1:199); al-Muḥbir (pp. 18, 19, 45, 46, 57, 66, 293, 326); Tārīkh al-Bukhārī al-Kabīr (2:286); Tārīkh al-Bukhārī al-Ṣaghīr [index]; Thiqāt al-ʿAjlī (p. 116); al-Maʿārif [index]; al-Maʿrifah wa-l-Tārīkh [index]; Tārīkh Abī Zurʿah al-Dimashqī (pp. 587–588, etc.); Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī (5:158); al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (3:19); Murūj al-Dhahab (3:4); Thiqāt Ibn Ḥibbān (fol. 90); Mashāhir ʿUlamāʾ al-Umam (d. 6); Muʿjam al-Ṭabarānī al-Kabīr (3:5); Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ (2:35); Jumharat Ansāb al-ʿArab (38–39); al-Istīʿāb (1:383); Tārīkh Baghdād (1:138); Tārīkh Ibn ʿAsākir (4:244 b); Jāmiʿ al-ʾUṣūl (9:27); Asad al-Ghabah (2:10); al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh (3:460); Tahdhīb al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Lughāt (1:158/1); Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (2:65); Mukhtaṣar Tārīkh Dimashq (7:5); Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (6:220); Tārīkh al-Islām (2:216); Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb (1:140 a); Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (3:245); al-Kāshif (1:164); al-ʿIbar (1:55); al-Wāfī bi-l-Wafayāt (12:107); Mirʾāt al-Janān (1:122); Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (9:174); al-ʿUqd al-Thamīn (4:157); Nihāyat al-Sūl (fol. 65); al-ʾIṣābah (1:328); Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb (2:295); Tārīkh al-Khulafāʾ (298); Khulāṣat al-Khuzrajī (79); Shadhārāt al-Dhahab (1:242); Tahdhīb Ibn ʿAsākir (4:202).
(2) Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (3:253).
(3) It is narrated by Aḥmad in his Musnad (5:354), by Abū Dāwūd (no. 1109), al-Tirmidhī (no. 3774), Ibn Mājah (no. 3600), and al-Nasāʾī (3:192). It is classified as ḥasan (fair) by Imam al-Tirmidhī.
(4) It is narrated by Aḥmad in his Musnad (6:409) and by al-Tirmidhī (no. 1910) under the chapter “On charity and maintaining kinship: concerning the love of one’s child,” and its isnād is weak.
(5) No. 3542 in al-Manaqib, chapter on the characteristics of the Prophet (peace be upon him).