He said: “I saw al-Ḥajjāj in a dream in a wretched state, so I asked, ‘Abū Muḥammad, what has your Lord done with you?’
He replied, ‘For every person I killed, He killed me in the very same way. Then I was ordered to the Fire.’
I asked, ‘And after that?’ He said, ‘Then I hope for what the people of Lā ilāha illā Allāh hope for.’

He added: Ibn Sīrīn used to say, ‘I still have hope for him.’ When that reached al-Ḥasan, he said, ‘By Allah, Allah will surely dash his hope concerning him.’

Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī said: I heard Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī say, ‘Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī would never sit in a gathering without mentioning al-Ḥajjāj and cursing him. Then he saw him in a dream and said to him, “Are you al-Ḥajjāj?” He answered, “I am al-Ḥajjāj.” He asked, “What has Allah done with you?” He replied, “For every person I killed, I myself was killed; then I was placed apart with the people of tawḥīd (monotheism).” After that al-Ḥasan stopped reviling him.’ (1) Allah knows best.

[Ibn Abī al-Dunyā said: Ḥamzah ibn al-ʿAbbās narrated to us, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān narrated to us, Ibn al-Mubārak informed us, Sufyān informed us:
He said: Al-Ḥajjāj once came to ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān as a delegate, accompanied by Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah. ʿAbd al-Malik asked Muʿāwiyah about al-Ḥajjāj, and he replied, “If we tell you the truth, you will kill us; and if we lie, we fear Allah, Mighty and Majestic.” Al-Ḥajjāj glared at him, whereupon ʿAbd al-Malik said, “Do not molest him.” He then banished him to Sind, where he experienced a number of events.] (2)

[Among those who died in this year—namely 95 AH—was Ibrāhīm ibn Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī] (3)

[He said: “Whenever we attended a funeral or heard of someone’s death, that could be seen in us for days, for we knew that a decree had befallen him that would carry him either to Paradise or to the Fire, whereas you speak at your funerals about worldly affairs.
He also said: ‘Sound judgment is not attained without deliberation, and deliberation is not sound without judgment.’
He said: ‘If you see a man treating the first takbīrah lightly, wash your hands of any success he may hope for.’
He said: ‘I sometimes see something blameworthy, and nothing prevents me from censuring it except fear that I myself might be tested by it.’
And when death approached, he wept. Asked, ‘What makes you weep?’ he replied, ‘Waiting for the Angel of Death; I do not know whether he will bring me good tidings of Paradise or of the Fire.’] (4)

Al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah (5), whose kunya was Abū Muḥammad, was the foremost of his brothers. He was a scholar and jurist, well-versed in points of disagreement, jurisprudence, and Qur’anic exegesis.