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Mu’awiya’s poisoning of Imam Hasan (as) 1 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Mu’awiya’s poisoning of Imam Hasan (as) 1 2021-06-22 2048 Views Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba Abu Sulaiman rejects such narration’s excuses include the following: “At those days, people were in an affliction, and their desires leading their instincts, each sect attributing bad things to other sects.

If a story was told about that, then we ought not to accept it unless just and trustworthy people narrated it”. Many afflictions occurred during that time but the Ahlul Sunnah happily embrace narration about Abdullah bin Saba so why do they not happily accept this as a fact of history? Should we reject all narrations during that period? A number of the grand Sunni scholars have recorded this (1).

First of all, it should be made clear that there isn’t any doubt that Imam Hasan (as) was poisoned and that too by his wife Ja’da bint al-Ash’ath for which she was rewarded with handsome amount of money.

Imam Hakim records in ‘Al-Mustadrak’:(2) “Qutada bin Du’ama al-Sedusi said that the daughter of al-Ash’ath bin Qais poisoned al-Hassan bin Ali and she was his wife, she received huge amount of money for that.” Neither Imam Hakim nor Imam Dhahabi advanced any sort of objection to this tradition endorsing the authenticity of the tradition.

As for the person who was actually behind the murder of Imam Hassan (as), Imam of Ahlul Sunnah Tabarani in his book Mu’ajam al-Kabeer (3) has recorded a tradition from some of the most authentic narrators of Sunni sect: عن أبي بكر بن حفص، أن سعدا والحسن بن علي رضي الله تعالى عنهما ماتا في زمن معاوية رضي الله تعالى عنه ، فيرون أنه سمه “Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Hadarmi narrated from Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Numair from Yahyah bin Abi Bakir from Shu’ba from Abu Bakr ibn Hafs who narrated that Sa’ad and Hasan, son of Ali (may Allah be pleased with both of them) died during the reign of Muawiya, and it is believed that he (Muawiya) poisoned him (Hasan).” All the narrators of the tradition are Thiqa (authentic), let us present the views of the two biggest Rijal scholars of Ahle Sunnah namely Ibn Hajar Asaqalani and Dahabi.