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Ḥafṣa bint Sīrīn

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Ḥafṣa bint Sīrīn Umm al-Hudhayl ​​(d. after 100 AH / 718), sister of Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, scholar and jurist from Baṣra. She learned the Quran at the age of twelve and transmitted the hadiths of Umm ʿAṭiyya. Iyās ibn Muʿāwiya preferred her to al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and his brother.