Hasan al-Askari

Twelver Hasan al- ‘Askarī ( ) (Eighth of Rabi' al-thani 232 AH – Eighth of Rabi' al-awwal 260 AH; approximately: 1 December 846 – 1 January 874) was the eleventh of the Twelve Imams . His given name was Hasan ibn ‘Alī ibn Muhammad.His title al-Askari derives from the Arabic word Asker which means military.He was given this title mainly because the country he lived in ( Samarra ) was a military camp. Hasan al-‘Askarī was 22, when his father was killed. The period of his Imāmate, following his father's death, was six years. Hasan Al-‘Askarī died at the age of 28 in the year, 260 Hijra and was buried in Samarra . Quotations related to Hasan al-‘Askarī at Wikiquote A Brief History of The Fourteen Infallibles . "Ḥasan al- ʿAskarī , Abū Muḥammad Ḥasan b. ʿAlī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Bosworth , E. van Donzel and W.P.

Hasan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ( c. 846 – 874) also called Abu Muhammad and Ibn al-Ridha , was known as al-Askari (military), for the city ( Samarra ) he had to live in was a garrison town. He was the eleventh Shia Imam after his father Ali al-Hadi and lived under house arrest in Samarra, especially since it was known that the Shia were looking forward to his son, Muhammad al-Mahdi , the twelfth Imam , who was destined to remove injustice from the world. Al-Askari married Narjis Khatun , the daughter of the Byzantine emperor , who following instructions given her in a dream, had sold herself into slavery to become his wife. Al-Askari was kept in prison most of his life until, according to some Shia sources, was poisoned in the age of 28 through the instigation of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tamid and was buried in Samarra. Selected and with a Foreword by Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i ; Translated with Explanatory Notes by William Chittick ; Under the Direction of and with an Introduction by Hossein Nasr . The History of Islamic Philosophy . Translated by Liadain Sherrard with the assistance of Philip Sherrard. "Ḥasan al- ʿAskarī , Abū Muḥammad Ḥasan b. ʿAlī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Bosworth , E. van Donzel and W.P.

Eleventh of the Twelve Shia Imams Hasan ibn Ali al-Askari ( , c. 846 – 874) was the 11th Imam of Twelver Shia Islam , after his father Ali al-Hadi . He was also called Abu Muhammad and Ibn al-Ridha. Because Samarra , the city where he lived, was a garrison town, he is generally known as al-Askari ( Askar is the word for military in Arabic). Al-Askari married Narjis Khatun (also recorded as Sawsan, Mariam) and was kept under house arrest or in prison for most of his life. According to some Shia sources, he was poisoned at the age of 28 on the orders of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tamid and was buried in Samarra. It was known that many Shia were looking forward to the succession of his son, Hujjat-Allah al-Mahdi , as they believed him to be the twelfth Imam , who was destined to remove injustice from the world. Selected and with a Foreword by Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i ; Translated with Explanatory Notes by William Chittick ; Under the Direction of and with an Introduction by Hossein Nasr . The History of Islamic Philosophy . Translated by Liadain Sherrard with the assistance of Philip Sherrard. "Ḥasan al- ʿAskarī, Abū Muḥammad Ḥasan b. ʿAlī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P.

He is regarded as the eleventh of the Twelve Imams , succeeding his father, Ali al-Hadi . Hasan Al-Askari was born in Medina in 844 and brought with his father to the garrison town of Samarra in 848, where the Abbasid caliphs held them under close surveillance until their deaths, even though neither were politically active. After the death of al-Hadi in 868, the majority of his following acknowledged his son, al-Askari, as their next Imam. Al-Askari's contact with the Shia population was restricted by the caliphs and instead he communicated with his followers through a network of representatives. He died in Samarra in 873-874 at the age of about twenty-eight and was buried in the family home next to his father, which later developed into al-Askari shrine , a major center for Shia pilgrimage. Shia sources commonly hold the Abbasids responsible for the death of al-Askari and his father. A well-known early Shia commentary of the Quran is attributed to al-Askari. Al-Askari died without leaving an obvious heir, which created widespread confusion and fragmented the Shia community into several sects, all of which disappeared within a few decades except the Twelver Shia. The Twelvers hold that al-Askari had a son, commonly known as Muhammad al-Mahdi ( lit. ' the rightly guided ' ), who was kept hidden from the public out of the fear of Abbasid persecution. Al-Mahdi succeeded to the imamate after the death of his father and entered a state of occultation. His life is said to be miraculously prolonged until the day he manifests himself again by God's permission to fill the earth with justice. Though in occultation, the Imam still remains responsible in Twelver belief for the spiritual guidance of humankind and the Shia accounts of his occasional encounters with the pious are numerous and popular. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

He is regarded as the eleventh of the Twelve Imams , succeeding his father, Ali al-Hadi . Hasan Al-Askari was born in Medina in 844 and brought with his father to the garrison town of Samarra in 848, where the Abbasid caliphs held them under close surveillance until their deaths, even though neither were politically active. After the death of al-Hadi in 868, the majority of his following acknowledged his son, al-Askari, as their next Imam. Al-Askari's contact with the Shia population was restricted by the caliphs and instead, he communicated with his followers through a network of representatives. He died in Samarra in 873–874 at the age of about twenty-eight and was buried in the family home next to his father, which later developed into al-Askari shrine , a major center for Shia pilgrimage. Shia sources commonly hold the Abbasids responsible for the death of al-Askari and his father. A well-known early Shia commentary of the Quran is attributed to al-Askari. Al-Askari died without leaving an obvious heir, which created widespread confusion and fragmented the Shia community into several sects, all of which disappeared within a few decades except the Twelver Shia. The Twelvers hold that al-Askari had a son, commonly known as Muhammad al-Mahdi ( lit. ' the rightly guided ' ), who was kept hidden from the public out of the fear of Abbasid persecution. Al-Mahdi succeeded to the imamate after the death of his father and entered a state of occultation. His life is said to be miraculously prolonged until the day he manifests himself again by God's permission to fill the earth with justice. Though in occultation, the Imam still remains responsible in Twelver belief for the spiritual guidance of humankind and the Shia accounts of his occasional encounters with the pious are numerous and popular. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).