He stamped a parchment at the bottom.

He stamped a parchment at the bottom. He gave the parchment to him and said: “Let al-Hasan write on it whatever he wishes.” So Abdullah returned carrying this absolute authorization to the Imam. So the Imam (a.s) wrote what he wanted from among the stipulations. We will mention the text of what he wrote when we deal with some of the narrations, for it does not differ from them. Dr. Taha Husayn has depended on this narration.[^1] [^1] Al-Fitnatu al-Kubra, vol. 2, p. 200.

Al-Tabari and Ibn al-Athir have narrated another copy saying that Imam al-Hasan corresponded with Mu’awiya regarding the peacemaking and made some conditions against him; if Mu’awiya conformed to the conditions, he would make peace with him; otherwise, he would not conclude it. When the Imam’s letter reached Mu’awiya, he kept it.

Before this letter came to him, he had sent the Imam a blank page stamped at the bottom and wrote to him: “Stipulate whatever you wish!” This document reached the Imam after he had sent Mu’awiya the document in which he wrote what he wanted. Then the Imam wrote on that blank page additional stipulations to the ones he had stipulated, and then he kept them.

When he handed over the authority to him and asked him to fulfill the conditions he had stipulated, he (Mu’awiya) did not fulfill them and said to him: “You shall have what you had written and asked me to give to you. So surely I gave them to you when your letter came to me.” Al-Hasan (a.s) said to him: “And I stipulated when your letter came to me and gave me the covenant to fulfill that which was in it.” Accordingly, they differed over that.

Mu’awiya did not fulfill anything to al-Hasan.[^1] The narration has not mentioned to us the stipulations the Imam had made nor has it mentioned what he wrote on the blank page Mu’awiya had sent to him. However in his book Tarikh, Abu al-Fida’ has mentioned the conditions the Imam had made, saying: “And al-Hasan wrote to Mu’awiya and made some conditions against him and said: ‘If you responded to them, I would listen and obey.’ So Mu’awiya responded to them.

The thing al-Hasan demanded was that Mu’awiya had to give him what was in the public treasury of Kufa, the land taxes collected from Dar Abjard of Persia, and not to curse Ali. But Mu’awiya did not respond to him concerning cursing Ali. So al-Hasan asked him not to curse Ali while he heard.