SMHMShaheed Mudassir Hussain Mehdi
Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba

Day 1

The lesson

  1. The first child of Imam Ali and Sayyida Fatima, the first grandson of the Messenger of God, and the second Imam. Born in Medina on 15 Ramadan 3 AH (625 CE) (Tarikh al-Tabari; al-Kafi 1:461).
  2. The Prophet himself named him al-Hasan, the good (Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal; al-Kafi); a hadith says the name came by God's command (Manaqib Al Abi Talib of Ibn Shahrashub; al-Tabaqat al-Kubra of Ibn Sa'd), and it had no precedent among the Arabs before Islam (al-Tabaqat al-Kubra; Usd al-Ghaba of Ibn al-Athir).
  3. The Prophet would carry him on his shoulders and say: O God, I love him, so love him (al-Tabaqat al-Kubra of Ibn Sa'd). When the child climbed onto his back as he prostrated in congregational prayer, he lengthened the prostration until al-Hasan came down by himself (Bihar al-Anwar 43:294). He called him the master of the youth of Paradise (Fara'id al-Simtayn of al-Hamwini; al-Fusul al-Muhimma of Ibn al-Sabbagh al-Maliki).

Questions

According to the facts, who named Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba?

What did the Prophet call Imam al-Hasan when he carried him on his shoulders?

What does the name al-Hasan mean, as given in the facts?

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