A Critical Analysis and Review of Fabricated Hadiths on Multi-divorces of Imam Hassan (pbuh)

Fabrication of Hadith is a problem with which the early Islamic society had confronted, and among the causes, character assassination of religious and political leaders could be pointed. Imam Hassan (pbuh) was a best moral pattern for the people, but fabricated hadiths degraded his spiritual and scientific character. Both Shia and Sunni sources, with different ways, reported by Imam Sadeq (pbuh) that he frequently married and divorced in his lifetime. In some sources, without sanad, the number of his wives is mentioned more than three hundreds. According to evidences, Mansoor Abasi as the origin of these fabricated hadiths and in historical books he is referred as the first one who attributed such accusations to Imam Hassan (pbuh). The science of Rijal and Dirayah shows that basically some of these hadiths are reported without sand (chain of transmission) and are so weak that have not any validity to be regarded as a hadith, and the set are reported from only two Shias: Abdullah bin Sanan and Yahya bin Abulala al-Razi and one Sunni: Hatam Bin Ismail. Research shows that it is possible these hadiths are fabricated and incorporated by the government into Shiite hadith works of them and the Sunni one also is narrated from Imam Sadiq (pbuh) in a morsal form. Regarding the content, these hadiths have serious conflict with rational and traditional proofs, as well.