Imam al-Hasan b. Ali al-Askari (a): Difference between revisions

== Biography ==

Abu Muhammad al-Hasan b. [[Ali b. Muhammad al-Hadi (a)|Ali]] b. [[Imam Muhammad b. Ali al-Jawad (a)|Muhammad]] b. [[Imam Ali b. Musa al-Rida (a)|Ali]] b. [[Imam Musa b. Ja'far al-Kazim (a)|Musa]] b. [[Imam Ja'far b. Muhammad al-Sadiq (a)|Ja'far]] b. [[Muhammad b. Ali (a)|Muhammad]] b. [[Ali b. al-Husayn (a)|Ali]] b. [[Husayn b. Ali (a)|al-Husayn]] b. [[Ali b. Abi Talib]]. His mother was a concubine called "[[Hudayth]]" or "Hudaytha".<ref>Kulaynī, ''al-Kāfī'', vol. 1, p. 503; Mufīd, ''al-Irshād'', vol. 2, p. 313.</ref> Some other sources report the name of his mother "Susan",<ref>Ibn Ṭalḥa, ''Matālib al-suʾūl'', vol. 2, p. 78; Sibt b. al-Jawzi, ''Tadkhirat al-Khawāṣ'', p. 362.</ref> "Asfan",<ref>Nawbakhtī, ''Firaq al-Shīʿa'', p. 96.</ref> or "Salil".<ref>Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, ''ʿUyūn al-muʿjizāt'', p. 123.</ref> He had a brother called Ja'far who is known to Shi'a as [[Ja'far al-Kadhdhab]]. After Imam al-Askari (a) was martyred, Ja'far claimed [[Imamate]]. He rejected that Imam al-Askari (a) had a son and claimed to be Imam's (a) only heir.<ref>Ṭabasī, ''Ḥayāt al-Imām al-ʿAskarī'', p. 320-324.</ref> [[Muhammad b. al-Imam al-Hadi (a)|Al-Sayyid Muhammad]] and Husayn are his other brothers.<ref>Mufīd, ''al-Irshād'', vol. 2, p. 312-313.</ref>

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