Abū Muḥammad al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī (, alias Hasan al-Mu'thannā; ) was an Islamic scholar and theologian. He was a son of

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and Khawla bint Manzur. He was a grandson of the fourth caliph Ali () and a great-grandson of the Islamic prophet

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. Al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan was a contemporary of

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caliph

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Life

Hasan was born in

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in . His father

ruled briefly as caliph in 661 and was a grandson of the Islamic prophet

. Hasan's mother Khawla bint Manzur was a daughter of Manzur ibn Zaban, the chieftain of the Banu Fazara. His mother was Khawla bint Manzur ibn Zaban ibn Sayyar Fazari. Hasan al-Muthanna was present in the

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. Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Hasani, in a tradition quoted from Abu Mikhnaf, he said that his age at that time was nineteen or twenty. On the day of

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, he fought beside Imam Husayn and was injured and was kept as captive. His maternal uncle, Asma' ibn Kharijah Fazari, saved him. He was cured in

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; and after recovering, he returned to

. Hasan ibn Hasan's uncle Husayn ibn Ali reportedly offered him to choose either of Husayn's two daughters Sukayna and Fatima, to be his wife. Hasan, who was too shy to accept, consequently chose Fatima, as she resembled his grandmother Fatima al-Zahra. The caliph

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had some correspondence with Al-Hassan Ibn Hassan through letters.

Children

Sayyed Ibn Tawus writes about the merit and nobility of Hasan ibn Hasan and some other children of Imam Hasan: "These are people whose lofty position and merit all Muslims acknowledged". According to a part of a narration reported from

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about the continuation of the offspring of Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn, it is inferred that Hasan al-Muthanna had many children and Imam Hasan's offspring continued through him and another brother of his named Zayd. It has been reported in this tradition: "Hasan ibn Ali's offspring continued through two of his sons named Zayd and Hasan. Zayd had a son whose name was Hasan. Also, Hasan al-Muthanna had sons named Abd Allah al-Mahd, Ibrahim al-Ghamr and Hasan al-Muthallath from Fatima bint Husayn; Ja'far and Da'wud from Umm al-Walad; Muhammad from Ramla bint Sa'id ibn Zayd; who continued a third generation of Imam Hasan." Although genealogically senior, Hasan's descendants never managed to establish serious claims to the imamate (other than

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and

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). Moreover, many later shifted to Sunnism. The Banu Qatadah and the Hashemite dynasty claim descent from him.

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* * {{Cite book , last=Madelung , first=Wilferd , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2QKBUwBUWWkC , title=The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate , publisher=Cambridge University Press , year=1997 , isbn=978-0-52-164696-3 , author-link=Wilferd Madelung Battle of Karbala Family of Muhammad 7th-century Arab people Sons of caliphs

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