Hasan ibn Rashid
Hasan ibn Rashid or Abu Ali ibn Rashid was a representative of Ali al-Hadi in Baghdad, Mada'in, and the Sawad.[1][2] These representatives were responsible for the financial and religious affairs of the Imamite Shias[3] especially for the collection of religious taxes like Khums[4] and following the same tenet of political quietism of the Shia Imams, they took on the role of directing and organising the Shia community.[5] Hasan predeceased al-Hadi and was praised by him, "He [Hasan] lived content and died a martyr."[6]
A letter attributed to al-Hadi asks Hasan and Ayyub ibn Nuh, another representative of the imam, to resolve their dispute and work only within their defined areas.[6][7] al-Hadi's representatives appear to have been split up into four distinct regions: the first one included Baghdad, Mada'in, the Sawad, and Kufa; the second, Basra and Ahwaz; the third, Qom and Hamadan; and the fourth, the Hejaz, Yemen, and Egypt.[8] According to al-Shaykh al-Mufid, Hasan was one of the famous jurisprudents and chiefs from whom people took the verdicts of halal and haram and who were uncriticized and unblameable.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Hussain 1986, pp. 49–50.
- ^ Wardrop 1988, pp. 220, 222.
- ^ Baghestani 2014.
- ^ Wardrop 1988, p. 221.
- ^ Sachedina 1981, p. 28.
- ^ a b Wardrop 1988, p. 222.
- ^ al-Qurashi 2012, p. 224.
- ^ Hussain 1986, pp. 81–2.
- ^ al-Qurashi 2012, p. 223.
External links
[edit]- Wardrop, S. F. (1988). Lives of the Imams, Muhammad al-Jawad and 'Ali al-Hadi and the Development of the Shi'ite Organisation (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh.
- Hussain, Jassim M. (1986). Occultation of the Twelfth Imam: A Historical Background (PDF). Routledge Kegan & Paul. ISBN 9780710301581.
- Baghestani, Esmail (2014). "Jawad, Imam". Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam (in Persian). Vol. 11. Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation. ISBN 978-9644470127.
- Sachedina, Abdulaziz Abdulhussein (1981). Islamic Messianism: The Idea of Mahdī in Twelver Shīʻism. State University of New York Press. ISBN 9780873954426.
- al-Qurashi, Baqir Shareef (2012). The Life of Imam ‘Ali al-Hadi, Study and Analysis. p. 224.
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