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Hasan ibn Hasan

Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī (Arabic: أَبُو مُحَمَّد الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِي ٱلْهَاشِمِي, romanizedAbū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī, alias Hasan al-Mu'thannā; c. 661–715) was an Islamic scholar and theologian. He was a son of Hasan ibn Ali and Khawla bint Manzur. He was a grandson of the fourth caliph Ali (r. 656–661) and a great-grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan was a contemporary of Umayyad caliph al-Walid I.

Hasan was born in Medina in c. 661. His father Hasan ibn Ali ruled briefly as caliph in 661 and was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. 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 Battle of Karbala. 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 Ashura, 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 Kufa; and after recovering, he returned to Medina.

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. Despite his Alid lineage, Hasan maintained a functional, albeit distant, relationship with the Umayyad state, notably engaging in formal correspondence with the Caliph al-Walid I.

In Sunni biographical literature, Hasan is portrayed as an intellectual who actively rejected political and theological extremism. According to classical sources, including Ibn Sa'd's Tabaqat al-Kubra, Hasan opposed the view that his lineage granted any special status or immunity.

Sunni traditions record that when questioned about the Hadith of Ghadir Khumm, Hasan rejected the assertion that Muhammad had explicitly appointed Ali as his political successor. He maintained that any such vital political appointment would have been made explicitly clear to the early Muslim community. The 14th-century hadith scholar Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi classified the chain of transmission for this narrative as highly authentic.

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