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al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī

الحسن بن علي

Abū Muhammad · Sayyid shabāb ahl al-janna (Master of the Youth of Paradise), al-Mujtabā

624 CE – 670 CE(aged ~46) Born in Madinah Died in Madinah Banū Hāshim

Eldest grandson of the Prophet ﷺ, second son of ʿAlī and Fāṭima. The Prophet ﷺ said: "al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn are the masters of the youth of Paradise." Briefly succeeded his father as caliph (40-41 AH) but abdicated to Muʿāwiya to avoid further civil war — fulfilling the Prophet's ﷺ prediction: "This son of mine is a sayyid, and Allah will reconcile through him two great factions of the Muslims." Ancestor of the Hasanid line — including the Idrīsids of Morocco, the Hashemite kings of Jordan and Iraq, the kings of Morocco, and the modern Sayyids/Sharīfs.

Significance

Eldest grandson of the Prophet ﷺ, second son of ʿAlī and Fāṭima. The Prophet ﷺ said: "al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn are the masters of the youth of Paradise." Briefly succeeded his father as caliph (40-41 AH) but abdicated to Muʿāwiya to avoid further civil war — fulfilling the Prophet's ﷺ prediction: "This son of mine is a sayyid, and Allah will reconcile through him two great factions of the Muslims." Ancestor of the Hasanid line — including the Idrīsids of Morocco, the Hashemite kings of Jordan and Iraq, the kings of Morocco, and the modern Sayyids/Sharīfs.
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Father

ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (علي بن أبي طالب)

Mother

Fāṭima bint Muhammad ﷺ (فاطمة بنت محمد ﷺ)
Classical grade
sahabi
Generation
Ṣaḥābī (Companion)
Narrations by collection
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Why they matter in hadith

He is a key figure in Islamic history and a transmitter of hadith, linking the Prophet’s generation to subsequent narrators.

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