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HASAN UL-BASRI [See also:

Abu Saud ul-Hasan See also:ibn Abi-l-Hasan Vassar ul-Basri], (642–728 or 737), Arabian theologian, wasborn at See also:Medina. His See also:father was a freedman of Zaid ibn Thabit, one of the An¢r (Helpers of the See also:Prophet), his See also:mother a client of Umm Salama, a wife of See also:Mahomet. Tradition says that Umm Salama often nursed Hasan in his See also:infancy. He was thus one of the Tdbi'un (i.e. of the See also:generation that succeeded the Helpers). He became a teacher of See also:Basra and founded a school there. Among his pupils was Wasil ibn 'Ata, the founder of the Mo'tazilites. He himself was a See also:great supporter of orthodoxy and the most important representative of See also:asceticism in the See also:time of its first development. With him fear is the basis of morality, and sadness the characteristic of his See also:religion. See also:Life is only a See also:pilgrimage, and comfort must be denied to subdue the passions. Many writers testify to the purity of his life and to his excelling in the virtues of Mahomet's own companions. He was " as if he were in the other See also:world." In politics, too, he adhered to the earliest principles of See also:Islam, being strictly opposed to the inherited See also:caliphate of the Omayyads and a believer in the See also:election of the See also:caliph. His life is given in See also:Nawawi's See also:Biographical See also:Dictionary (ed.

F. Wiistenfeld, See also:

Gottingen, 1842-1847). Cf. R. See also:Dozy, Essai sur l'histoire de l'islamisme, pp. 201 sqq. (See also:Leiden and See also:Paris, 1879) ; A. von Kremer, Cuiturgeschichtliche Streifzuge, p. 5 seq. ; R. A. See also:Nicholson, A See also:Literary See also:History of the See also:Arabs, pp. 225-227 (See also:London, 1907).

(G. W.

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