Day 3

The lesson

1. In his father's caliphate he was at his side throughout. Before al-Jamal he went to Kufa with Ammar ibn Yasir and Qays ibn Sa'd to call its people to Imam Ali (al-Jamal of al-Shaykh al-Mufid); at Siffin he and al-Husayn commanded the right wing (al-Futuh of Ibn A'tham; Manaqib Al Abi Talib); and he was present at al-Nahrawan (al-Isti'ab of Ibn Abd al-Barr).
2. Before his martyrdom Imam Ali handed him the books and the weapon of the Imamate in the presence of his children and leading Shia, and declared that the Prophet had commanded him to make al-Hasan his executor (al-Kafi). On 21 Ramadan 40 AH he spoke in the mosque of Kufa; Abdullah ibn Abbas called the people to pledge allegiance to the son of their Prophet, and more than forty thousand did (al-Irshad of al-Shaykh al-Mufid; al-Isti'ab; Imta' al-Asma' of al-Maqrizi). Qays ibn Sa'd was the first to pledge (Tarikh al-Tabari).
3. His caliphate lasted six or eight months (Muruj al-Dhahab of al-Mas'udi; Tarikh al-Islam of al-Dhahabi); Sunni historians, on a hadith they attribute to the Prophet, count him the last of the Rightly Guided Caliphs (Muruj al-Dhahab; al-Bidaya wa l-Nihaya of Ibn Kathir). Among his first acts he doubled the soldiers' pay (Maqatil al-Talibiyyin of Abu l-Faraj al-Isfahani).

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