Humaid al-Tawil asked al-Hasan about the verse: “Even so do We let it creep into the hearts of the sinners.” He said: Polytheism

Explaining the Quranic verse; “And between them and their desire is placed a barrier.” Al-Hasan said: Between them and their faith.

Ibn ‘Awn said: I was a prisoner in Syria. A man called me from behind. I turned towards him and suddenly found that it was Raja b. Haiwah. He said: Ab...

Hammad said: I heard Ayyub say: Two kinds of people have lied to al-Hasan: people who believed in free will and they intended that they publicise thei...

Yahya b. Kathir al-‘Anbari said: Qurrah b. Khalid used to tell us: O young people! Do not think that al-Hasan denied predestination, for his opinion (...

Ibn ‘Awn said: If we learnt that the remark of al-Hasan would reach the extent that it has reached, we would write a book for his withdrawal and call ...

Ayyub said: Al-Hasan said: I will never return to it.

‘Uthman al-Batti said: Al-Hasan never interpreted any Quranic verse but to establish (Divine decree).

Ibn ‘Umar said: We used to say in the times of the Prophet (ﷺ): We do not compare anyone with Abu Bakr. ’Umar came next and then ‘Uthman. We then woul...

Ibn ‘Umar said: When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was alive, we used to say: The most excellent member of the community of the Prophet (ﷺ) after himself...

Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyyah said: I said to my father: Which of the people after the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) is best? He replied: Abu Bakr. I then asked:...

Muhammad al-Firyabl said: I heard Sufyan say: If anyone thinks that ‘All (Allah be pleased with him) was more deserving for the Caliphate than both of...

Sufyan al-Thawri said: The Caliphs are five: Abu Bakr, ‘Umar, ‘Uthman, ‘All and ‘Umar b. ‘Abd al-Aziz.

Ibn 'Abbas said: Abu Hurairah said that a man came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said: I saw (in my dream) a piece of cloud from which ghee and ho...

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Ibn ‘abbas through a different chain of narrators. This version adds: He refused to tell hi...

Narrated AbuBakrah: One day the Prophet (ﷺ) said: Which of you had dream? A man said: It is I. I saw as though a scale descended from the sky. You and...

Abu Bakrah said: One day the Prophet (ﷺ) asked: Which of you had a dream? He then mentioned the rest of the tradition to the same effect, but he did n...

Jabir b. ‘Abd Allah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Last night a good man had a vision in which Abu Bakr seemed to be joined to the Mes...

Samurah b. Jundub told that a man said: Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)! I saw (in a dream) that a bucket was hung from the sky. Abu Bakr came, caught hold of ...

Makhul said: The Romans will enter the Levant and stay there for forty days, and no place will be saved from them but Damascus and 'Uman.