Is it True Imam Hasan (Allah be pleased with him) Was Paid to be Poisoned by Mu‘awiya (Allah be pleased with him?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
Is it true that Imam Hasan (Allah be pleased with him) was poisoned by his wife Jada Bint Jash, and she was paid by Mu‘awiya (Allah be pleased with him) so that Imam Hasan (Allah be pleased with him) doesn’t become the caliph?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.
ِImam Hasan (Allah be pleased with him) was not paid to be poisoned by Mu‘awiya (Allah be pleased with him).
Ibn Kathir (Allah have mercy on him) in Al-Bidaya Wal-Nihaya states:
Some of them have narrated that Yazid ibn Mu‘awiya wrote to Ja’da to poison Hasan and that he would marry her afterward. So she carried it out, and after Hasan passed away, she sent a message to him (Yazid), and he replied, “We could not trust you with Hasan; do you think we could trust you for ourselves?” I believe this is not authentic, and being incorrect regarding his father, Muawiya, is even more appropriate.
Dhahabi (Allah have mercy on him) said in Tarikh al-Islam:
This is a matter that is not correct; who was there to see it?
Ibn al-‘Arabi (Allah have mercy on him) said in al ‘Awasim min al-Qawasim:
If it is said he secretly conspired to have Hasan poisoned, we say that this claim is far-fetched for two reasons:
- One of them was the fact that Hasan handed over the khilafa willingly, and there was no incentive for Mu‘awiya to have Hasan killed.
- Secondly, the narration regarding it is unreliable, and several scholars have identified flaws in the narration.
[Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaya Wal-Nihaya; Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam; Ibn al-Arabi, Al-Awasim Min al-Qawasim]
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Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.
