Mu’awiya responded to him, and then he did not fulfill that to him.

Mu’awiya responded to him, and then he did not fulfill that to him.”[^2] I (the author) think that what Ibn al-Athir and al-Tabari have mentioned is far from correctness. That is because if the conditions Imam al-Hasan lastly made were of great importance, then why did he neglect them and did not mention them at the beginning of the affair? If we overlooked that, then what was the benefit of writing them while Mu’awiya did not come to know them and did not acknowledge them?

A part from that, Mu’awiya was at that stage ready to respond to anything the Imam demanded from him. Ibn ‘Abd al-Birr has narrated: “Surely Imam (al-Hasan) wrote to Mu’awiya and told him that he would pass the…