Then he asked each for the items he had stolen.

Then he asked each for the items he had stolen. When they confessed their guilt, he got the articles back from them and spared them the penalty. AS CENTER OF LEARNING IMAM HASAN AL-'ASKARI (AS) had a brief span of life, only twenty-eight years, but even in this short period, which was ruffled by a chain of troubles and tribulations, several high ranking scholars benefited from his ocean of knowledge.

He also stemmed the flood of atheism and disbelief which ensued from the philosophers of that age,…