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This claim has been criticized in past and recent scholarly works.<ref>Mahdawī Dāmghānī, ''Ḥasan b. Alī, Imām'', p. 309.</ref> According to [[Madelung]], the first person to have spread the rumor that Imam al-Hasan (a) had ninety wives was Muhammad b. al-Kalbi, and the number was made up by al-Madaʾini (d. 225/839-40). However, al-Kalbi mentions only the names of eleven women as the Imam's wives, and from these eleven, five were arguably not the Imam's wives.<ref>Wilferd Madelung, ''Jānishīnī-yi Muḥammad'', p. 514-515.</ref> Al-Qurashi maintains that these reports were fabricated by the [[Abbasids]] to tarnish the reputation of the descendants of Imam al-Hasan (a) who led several revolts against them.<ref>Al-Qarashī, ''Ḥayāt al-Imām al-Ḥasan'', vol. 2, p. 453-454.</ref>
This claim has been criticized in past and recent scholarly works.<ref>Mahdawī Dāmghānī, ''Ḥasan b. Alī, Imām'', p. 309.</ref> According to [[Madelung]], the first person to have spread the rumor that Imam al-Hasan (a) had ninety wives was Muhammad b. al-Kalbi, and the number was made up by al-Madaʾini (d. 225/839-40). However, al-Kalbi mentions only the names of eleven women as the Imam's wives, and from these eleven, five were arguably not the Imam's wives.<ref>Wilferd Madelung, ''Jānishīnī-yi Muḥammad'', p. 514-515.</ref> Al-Qurashi maintains that these reports were fabricated by the [[Abbasids]] to tarnish the reputation of the descendants of Imam al-Hasan (a) who led several revolts against them.<ref>Al-Qarashī, ''Ḥayāt al-Imām al-Ḥasan'', vol. 2, p. 453-454.</ref>


There is disagreement about the number of Imam al-Hasan's (a) children. According to [[al-Shaykh al-Mufid]], they were fifteen,<ref>Mufīd, ''al-Irshād'', vol. 2, p. 20.</ref> but [[al-Tabrisi]] considers them sixteen, among whom was Abu Bakr who was martyred in the [[event of Karbala]].<ref>Ṭabrisī, ''Iʿlām al-warā'', vol. 1, p. 416.</ref>
There is disagreement about the number of Imam al-Hasan's (a) children. According to [[al-Shaykh al-Mufid]], they were fifteen,<ref>Mufīd, ''al-Irshād'', vol. 2, p. 20.</ref> but [[Al-Fadl b. al-Hasan al-Tabrisi|al-Tabrisi]] considers them sixteen, among whom was Abu Bakr who was martyred in the [[event of Karbala]].<ref>Ṭabrisī, ''Iʿlām al-warā'', vol. 1, p. 416.</ref>


==Residence in Kufa==
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