796 — “Al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn are the two masters of the youth of the people of Paradise.”

It has been reported on the authority of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib, Abū Hurayrah, Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and Qurrah ibn Iyās.

1. As for the hadith of Abū Saʿīd, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Nuʿm narrated it from him, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it. It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (4/339), al-Ḥākim (3/166–167), al-Ṭabarānī (1/123/1), Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah (5/71), al-Khaṭīb in al-Tārīkh (4/207 and 11/90), Aḥmad (3/3, 62, 64, 80, 82), and Ibn ʿAsākir (18/47/1), through various chains from him. Al-Tirmidhī said: “A good and authentic hadith.”

I say: It is as he said, for Ibn Abī Nuʿm is trustworthy, and both al-Bukhārī and Muslim relied upon him.

Aḥmad added in his narration: “And Fāṭimah is the mistress of their women, except for Mary daughter of ʿImrān.”

Its chain contains Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, a Kūfan client of the Hāshimites. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “Weak. He deteriorated in old age, became susceptible to prompting, and was a Shiite.”