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
  1. Hussain 1986, pp. 49–50.
  2. Wardrop 1988, pp. 220, 222.
  3. Baghestani 2014.
  4. Wardrop 1988, p. 221.
  5. Sachedina 1981, p. 28.
  6. Wardrop 1988, p. 222.
  7. al-Qurashi 2012, p. 224.
  8. Hussain 1986, pp. 81–2.
  9. al-Qurashi 2012, p. 223.
  • 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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