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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Life of Imam Al-hasan Al-mujtaba A’isha Permits Abdurrahman To Be Buried The historians have mentioned that A’isha permitted Abdurrahman bin ‘Awf to be buried in the room of the Prophet (a.s).[^2] This attitude was very strange. Was Abdurrahman more appropriate to the Prophet (a.s) than Imam al-Hasan, who was his dear grandson? O Allah, have mercy on me! What an attitude 223, Al-Ya‘qubi in his Tarikh, vol. 1, p. 200, Abu al-Fida’ in his Tarikh, vol.

1, p. 192, Abu Ali al-Nisaburi in his Roudat al-Wa‘izeen, p. 143, and Abu al-Farajj al-Asfahani in his Maqatil al-Talibiyyin, p. 23. It has also been mentioned in the books: al-Kharaiyajj wa al-Jaraiyah, p. 23, Roudat al-Nazir, and Bihar al-Anwar. [^1] We have already mentioned the Prophet’s traditions concerning Imam al-Hasan. The Muslims have unanimously agreed on them. [^2] Al-Durra al-Thamina fi Tarikh al-Medina, p. 404. that which A’isha took was!

She allowed Abdurrahman bin ‘Awf to be buried beside Allah’s Apostle, and he enjoyed his neighborhood, while she sent far from him his dear grandson and the part of his liver (Imam al-Hasan)! She came between him and the dearest of his wishes and paid no attention to the feelings of the Prophet (a.s) as to his great love for him and his attachment to him.

Professor Sayyid Sa‘eed al-Afghani has commented on A’isha’s attitude, saying: “Perhaps the last expression about her (A’isha) negative attitude toward Ali is that she turned away from his two sons al-Hasan and al-Husayn. She veiled herself from them while she was among mahrams (those who it is not lawful to get married to). They were the grandsons of her husband. It was not lawful for her to marry them, nor was it lawful for them to marry her.

It is intuitively known that it is not lawful for man’s wife to marry his sons nor the sons of his sons nor the sons of their daughters. She definitely knew that but she veiled herself from them.

She did not give permission to them except when she was behind a curtain as a sign of exaggerating in sending them far.” Ibn Abbas has commented on this attitude, saying: “It was lawful for them (al-Hasan and al-Husayn) to came in to her.”[^1] Then it was the last wish of al-Hasan, after the death of Imam Ali (a.s), and his abdicating the caliphate to Mu’awiya, to be buried alongside his grandfather. It was a legal wish.