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HASAN UL-BASRI [Abu Saud ul-Hasan ibn Abi-l-Hasan Vassar ul-Basri], (642728 or 737), Arabian theologian, wasborn at Medina. His father was a freedman of Zaid ibn Thabit, one of the Anr (Helpers of the Prophet), his mother
Mahomet . Tradition says that Umm Salama often nursed Hasan in his infancy. He was thus one of the Tdbi'un (i.e. of the generation that succeeded the Helpers). He became a teacher of Basra and founded a school there. Among his pupils was Wasil ibn 'Ata, the founder of the Mo'tazilites. He himself was a great
Life
pilgrimage , and comfort must be denied to subdue the passions. Many writers testify to the purity of his life
Mahomet 's own companions. He was " as if he were in the other world." In politics, too, he adhered to the earliest principles of Islam
caliphate
caliph
His life is given in Nawawi's Biographical Dictionary (ed. F. Wiistenfeld, Gottingen, 1842-1847). Cf. R. Dozy
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