Family Life Hazrat Hassan RA ibni Ali RA

Sources differ about Hasan's wives and children. According to Ibn Sa'd (whose account is considered the most reliable), Hasan had fifteen sons and nine daughters with six wives and three known concubines.[4] His first marriage was to Ja'da bint al-Ash'ath, daughter of the Kinda chief al-Ash'ath ibn Qays, soon after Ali's relocation to Kufa. According to Madelung, Ali intended to establish ties with the powerful Yemeni tribal coalition in Kufa with this marriage. Hasan had no children with Ja'da, who is commonly accused of poisoning him.[98] Umm Bashir was Hasan's second wife. She was the daughter of Abu Mas'ud Uqba ibn Amr, who had opposed the Kufan revolt against Uthman. Madelung suggests that Ali was hoping to attract Abu Mas'ud to his side with the marriage.[m][99] Hasan married Khawla bint Manzur ibn Zabban, daughter of the Fazara chief Manzur ibn Zabban, after his abdication and return to Medina.[100] Khawla had been married to Muhammad ibn Talha, who was killed in the Battle of the Camel, and had two sons and a daughter from that marriage. After her father protested that he had been ignored, Hasan presented Khawla to her father and remarried her with his approval.[n] Khawla bore Hasan his son, Hasan.[101] Hafsa bint Abd al-Rahman was a daughter of Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr, and another wife of Hasan whom he married in Medina.[100] It is said that al-Mundhir ibn al-Zubayr was in love with her, and his rumors compelled Hasan to divorce her. The rumors also ended Hafsa's next marriage, and she eventually married al-Mundhir.[o][102] Hasan also married Umm Ishaq, daughter of Talha. She was described as beautiful, but with a bad character. In Damascus, Mu'awiya asked his brother Ishaq ibn Talha, to give her in marriage to Yazid. Ishaq married her to Hasan when he returned to Medina, and she bore a son named Talha.[p][103] Hind bint Suhayl ibn Amr, daughter of Suhayl ibn Amr, was another wife of Hasan.[100] She had been married to Abd al-Rahman ibn Attab (who was killed in the Battle of the Camel) and Abd Allah ibn Amir, who divorced her.[q] Hasan had no children with Hind.[104] According to Madelung, Hasan's other children were probably from concubines: Amr ibn Hasan (married and had three children), Qasim and Abu Bakr (both childless and killed in the Battle of Karbala), Abd al-Rahman (childless), al-Husayn, and Abd Allah (possibly identical to Abu Bakr).[105] Late sources add three other offspring: Isma'il, Hamza, and Ya'qub, all of whom were childless. Hasan's daughters from concubines were Umm Abd Allah, who married Zayn al-Abidin and bore Muhammad al-Baqir (the fifth Shia Imam);[106] Fatima and Ruqayya (not known to have married), and Umm Salama (childless).[107] Other accounts, described by Madelung as absurd, say that Hasan married seventy (or ninety) women in his lifetime and had a harem of three hundred concubines.[4] Pierce wrote that the accusations were by later Sunni writers who were unable to list more than sixteen names.[108] Madelung said that most of the claims were by al-Mada'ini and were often vague; some had a clear defamatory intent.[109] Madelung wrote that the ninety-wives allegation was first made by Muhammad al-Kalbi and was picked up by al-Mada'ini, who was unable to list more than eleven names (five of whom are uncertain or highly doubtful).[110] According to Veccia Vaglieri, the marriages received little contemporary censure.[1] The number of Hasan's consorts has attracted scholarly attention. Henri Lammens wrote that Hasan married and divorced so frequently that he was called miṭlāq (lit. 'the divorcer'), and his behavior earned Ali new enemies.[111] Madelung disagreed, saying that Hasan – living in his father's household – could not enter into any marriages not arranged (or approved) by Ali.[109] Madelung also wrote that narratives attributed to Ali in which he warns the Kufans not to marry their daughters to Hasan were not credible;[4] Hasan's marriages were intended to strengthen Ali's political alliances, evidenced by Hasan's reservation of his kunya (Muhammad) for his first son with Khawla, his first freely-chosen wife). Madelung wrote that Hasan intended to make Muhammad his primary heir; when he died in childhood, Hasan chose Khawla's second son Hasan.[4] Allegations of Hasan's readiness to divorce, according to Madelung, indicate no signs of an inordinate sexual appetite,[109] he seemed as noble and forbearing in dealing with his wives as with others.[4] Hasan divorced Hafsa (the granddaughter of Abu Bakr) out of propriety after she was accused by al-Mundhir, although he still loved her. When she married al-Mundhir, Hasan visited the couple and was quick to forgive al-Mundhir for spreading those false rumors out of love for Hafsa.[112] Hasan returned Khawla bint Manzur to her father (who had complained about being ignored), remarrying her with his approval.[109] Madelung cites Hasan's readiness to divorce Hind bint Suhayl when he saw evidence of renewed love by her former husband and his advice to Husayn to marry his widow, Umm Ishaq bint Talha, after his death.[109] When he was poisoned, Hasan reportedly refrained from identifying a suspect to Husayn.[1] Hasan's descendants are usually known as sharif, though the usage of the term is sometimes extended to Husayn's descendants as