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HASAN AND HOSAIN (or HUSEIN) , sons of the fourth Mahommedan
caliph
Mahomet . On Ali's death Hasan was proclaimed caliph
condition that he should have the disposal of the treasure stored at Kufa, with the revenues of Darabjird. This secret negotiation came to the ears of Hasan's supporters, a mutiny broke out and Hasan was wounded. He retired to Medina where he died about 669. The story that he was poisoned at Moawiya's instigation is generally discredited (see CALIPHATE
Kerbela
CALIPHATE
Passion Play which is performed annually (e.g. at Kerbela
Shiites of Persia and India, to whom from the earliest times the family of Ali are the only true descendants of Mahomet . The play lasts for several days and concludes with the carrying out of the coffins (labia) of the martyrs to an open place in the neighbourhood.See Sir \Vm. Muir, The Caliphate (1883); Sir Lewis
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