Al-Hādī

How the scholars invoke Al-Hādī.

1. "set free the sacrificial animals. This narration is also found in the collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim. Al-Bukhari mentioned that Ibn al-Hadi narrated from al-Zuhri. Al-Hakim clarified that al-Bukhari intended to say that Ibn al-Hadi narrated from Abd al-Wahhab ibn Bakht from al-Zuhri. Ahmad narrated from Amr ibn Salama al-Huzayy through al-Laith ibn Sa'd, from Yazid ibn al-Hadi, from al-Zuhri, from Abu Hurairah. I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, say, I saw Amr ibn Amir dragging his intestines in the fire, and he was the first to set free the sacrificial animals and to establish the practice of the al-Bahira. Al-Hakim noted that Abd al-Wahhab"

   — Ibn Kathir, Volume 2 — From the Israelite Prophets to Pre-Islamic Arabia

2. "The graves of the Abbasid Caliphs, may Allah be pleased with them, are at al-Rusafa, each marked with its occupant's name. The graves of al-Mahdi, al-Hadi, al-Amin, al-Mutasim, al-Wathik, al-Mutawakkil, al-Muntasir, al-Mustain, al-Mutaz, al-Mutadi, al-Mutamad, al-Muqtadid, al-Muqtadir, al-Qahir, al-Radi, al-Mustaqfi, al-Mutilillah, al-Tai, al-Qaim, al-Qadir, al-Mustajir, al-Mustarshid, al-Muqtaf, al-Mustanjid, al-Mustadi, al-Nasir, al-Zahir, al-Mustansir, and al-Mustasim, who was their last."

   — Ibn Battuta, Volume One: From Tangier to the Lands of the East