Wikipedia's first sentence called it “great-grandson of muhammad”. Today it says “islamic scholar and theologian”.
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Islamic scholar and theologian (c. 661–715) Abū Muḥammad al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī ( Arabic : أَبُو مُحَمَّد الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِي ٱلْهَاشِمِي , romanized : Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī , alias Hasan al-Mu'thannā ; c. 661–715 ) was an Islamic scholar and theologian. He was a son of Hasan ibn Ali and Khawla bint Manzur. He was a grandson of the fourth caliph Ali ( r. 656–661 ) and a great-grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad . Al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan was a contemporary of Umayyad caliph al-Walid I .
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Participant in the battle of Karbala Hasan ibn Hasan ( Arabic : حسن بن حسن, Hasan al-Muthana ibn Hasan ibn Ali, popularly known as Hasan al-Muthana) was a great-grandson of Muhammad .
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Islamic scholar and theologian (c. 661–715) Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ; c. 661–715 ), also known as al-Ḥasan al-Muthannā ( , lit. ' Hasan the Second ' ), was an Islamic scholar and theologian.He was a son of Hasan ibn Ali and Khawla bint Manzur.He was a grandson of the fourth caliph Ali ( r. 656–661 ) and a great-grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad .Al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan was also the father in law of Umayyad caliph al-Walid I through his daughter Zaynab.
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great-grandson of muhammad
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islamic scholar and theologian
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