As for the rights of the dead...

As for the rights of the dead, it is to commemorate their good deeds and conceal their bad deeds, for they have their Lord to deal with them.’ ‘There is no poverty like ignorance.’ ‘The peak of wit and intelligence is the good conduct with the people.’ ‘The distance between right and falsehood is (the width of) four fingers (i.e. the distance between the eye and the ear).

What you see with your eyes is the truth, whereas you could hear many false things.’ ‘The people who practice consultation are guided (towards perfection).’ ‘(The beneficences of) both worlds are achieved through reasoning.’ ‘Do not hasten punishment for offence, and allow room for reason for the offence.’ ‘I am surprised at one who takes care at what he eats, but does not do so about what he believes in.

He avoids that which hurts him from entering his stomach, but allows that which makes him inferior to enter his heart (and mind).’ What others have said about Imam Hasan Anas ibn M"lik, one of the Prophet’s companions said: ‘There was no-one among them who more resembled the Messenger of Alla>h than .asan.’231 AbY Hurayra said: ‘I always loved .asan ever since I saw how the Messenger of Alla>h used to treat him.’232 !Abdull"h ibn al-Zubayr said: ‘Let me tell you of the person from his [the Prophet’s] family who most resembled him and who was most beloved to him - it was .asan son of Al:.’233 Ibn S:r:n said: ‘Often .asan ibn !Al: would reward a single person with one hundred thousand coins.’234 W"Nil ibn !AU"v said: ‘.asan ibn !Al: had the mark of a prophet and the aura of a king.’235 Abul-Fid"v ibn Kothayr said [of him]: ‘If only they [the Muslims] knew, they would have venerated the blessings of Alla>h upon them when they swore allegiance to the son of the daughter of the Messenger of Alla>h and the chief of the Muslims and one of the most knowledgeable and intelligent of the companions.’ 236 The Third Imam He is .usayn son of !Al: ibn Ab: ھ"lib (a.s.) and F"Uima al-Zahr"v (a.s.) daughter of Mu9ammad (N).

He is the grandson of the Messenger of Alla>h (N) and the third of his successors and the progenitor of the nine Imams who came after him and the leader (im"m) of the people after his brother Hasan (a.s.).