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Hasan ibn Ali

5th Rashidun Caliph (r. 661) and second Shia Imam

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Lived 625–669, aged 44
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    625–669
    Aged 44
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Updated 2026-08-31

The prophet Muhammad's grandson who held the caliphate for seven months in 661 before signing it away to his rival — a surrender that split opinion for thirteen centuries and shaped the fault line between Sunni and Shia memory.

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Born around 625, Hasan was the eldest son of Ali and Fatima, placing him in the innermost circle of early Islam's founding family. He fought alongside his father during the First Fitna, the civil war that tore through the caliphate in the 650s. When Ali was assassinated in January 661, Hasan was proclaimed caliph in Kufa, but Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, governor of Syria, refused to recognize him and marched an army toward the city while sending letters demanding abdication. Hasan dispatched a vanguard to block the advance, but before he could follow with the main force he was stabbed and gravely…

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Hasan ibn Ali
saidundated
If you cannot teach knowledge, then you should teach your intuition.
— Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 111
Hasan ibn Ali
saidundated
Thought, meditation and pondering is the life of clear sighted people
— Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.72, p. 115
Hasan ibn Ali
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Both the abodes (this world and the Hereafter) are grasped by the intellect, and whoever is deprived of the intellect is deprived of them both.
— al-Irbili, Kashf al-Ghamma, vol.3, p. 197
Hasan ibn Ali
saidundated
The heart that is empty of doubt is the cleanest of hearts.
— Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 109
Hasan ibn Ali
saidundated
Nothing sweetens life like a pleasant disposition.
— Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 111
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