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3770. 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin Abū Nu'm narrated that a man from the people of Al-'Irāq asked Ibn 'Umar about the blood of a gnat that gets on the clothes. Ibn 'Umar said: "Look at this one, he asks about the blood of a gnat while they killed the son of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ! And I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ saying: 'Indeed Al-Ḥasan and Al-Ḥusain – they are my two sweet basils in the world.'" (Sahīh)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Sahīh. And Shu'bah [and Mahdī bin Maimūn] reported it from Muḥammad bin Abī Ya'qūb. And it has been related from Abū Hurairah from the Prophet ﷺ, similarly. Ibn Abū Nu'm is 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin Abū Nu'm Al-Bajalī.
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Flowers are symbol of beauty and delight. They provide pleasure and comfort to the senses, similarly a child also incites the sentiments of love and tenderness. Al-Ḥasan and Al-Ḥusain were like tender sweet-smelling flowers. The people of Iraq killed Al-Ḥusain. One man was asking about the killing of a gnat and its blood and his people martyred the grandson of the Prophet ﷺ.
