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الحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيّ
Hasan ibn Ali
The Prophet's elder grandson, who gave up the caliphate to stop a war between Muslims.
Also written · Hasan · Imam Hasan · Hassan ibn Ali · Al-Hasan · Hasan bin Ali · Hasan al-Mujtaba · Hazrat Hasan · Hasan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib · Imam Hassan · Hasan Mujtaba
The meaning
What Hasan ibn Ali means in Islam
After Ali was killed the people of Iraq pledged to him, and Mu'awiyah held Syria. Rather than fight, he negotiated terms and stepped aside in the forty first year, and that year is called the Year of Unity. The Prophet had said of him, while he was a child on the pulpit, that this son of his is a master and that Allah would reconcile two great parties of Muslims through him. Twelver Shia count him the second Imam, and he is buried in al-Baqi.
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- Ali ibn Abi TalibThe Prophet's cousin and son in law, raised by him, and the fourth caliph.عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِب
- Husayn ibn AliThe Prophet's younger grandson, killed at Karbala in the sixty first year of the Hijrah.الحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيّ
- Al-Fitnah al-UlaThe first civil war among Muslims, from the killing of Uthman to the death of Ali.الفِتْنَةُ الأُولَى
- Ahl al-BaytThe Prophet's household, honoured by all Muslims, though the schools draw its boundary differently.أَهْلُ البَيْت
- Jannat al-BaqiThe main cemetery of Madinah, where much of the Prophet's family and many Companions are buried.جَنَّةُ البَقِيع
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- Bilal ibn RabahAn enslaved Abyssinian tortured for his faith, freed by Abu Bakr, and the first to call the adhan.بِلَالُ بْنُ رَبَاح
- Hijri CalendarThe Muslim lunar calendar, counting years from the Hijrah and running about eleven days shorter than the solar year.التَّقْوِيمُ الهِجْرِيّ
- JahiliyyahThe age of ignorance in Arabia before Islam, and any conduct that still belongs to it.الجَاهِلِيَّة
- MakkahThe valley city holding the Ka'bah, where the Prophet was born and revelation began.مَكَّة
- SalafThe first three generations of Muslims: the Companions, the Followers, and those after them.السَّلَف