al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Mourad, Suleiman A.
Leiden
Brill
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Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan b. Yasār al-Baṣrī (21-110/624-728), famously known as al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī or al-Ḥasan b. Abī l-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, was one of the most celebrated Successors (tābiʿūn) of the Companions of Muḥammad and enjoyed an acclaimed scholarly career and an even more remarkable posthumous legacy in Islamic scholarship. Al-Ḥasan was probably born in Medina. His mother was said to have been a maid to Umm Salama, one of Muḥammad's widows. His father, who hailed from southern Iraq, was captured