The main condition Hasan ibn Ali(as) imposed on Muawiya for handing over power was to be just to the people and keep them safe and secure. Following is the extract of the treaty between Imam Hassan and Muawiya which mostly Muawiya VIOLATED: 1. Authority will be handed to Muawiya provided that HE SHOULD ACT ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF ALLAH, the SUNNA OF THE PROPHET, and the behavior of the RIGHTEOUS Caliphs 2. Authority should be for Imam Hassan after Muawiya, and if an accident occurs, authority should go to Imam Hussain, Muawiya has NO RIGHT TO ENTRUST AUTHORITY TO ANYONE 3. Muawiya SHOULD ABANDON CURSING IMAM ALI(AS), the Commander of the faithful and the practice of using the qunut in the salat against him, Muawiya should also not mention Imam Ali unless in a good manner. 4. He (Muawiya) should excluded what is in the treasury of Kufa, that is five million (dirhams). So handing over authority does not include it (i.e., this sum of money). Muawiya should send al-Husayn one million dirhams a year, he should prefer the children of Hashim (banu Hashim) in giving and gifts to the banu Abd Shams, and should divide one million (dirhams) among the sons of those who were killed with the Commander of the faithful at the Battle of the Camel and the Battle of Siffin, and should spend that from the taxes of Dar Abjard. 5.The people should be safe wherever they are in the earth of Allah. Muawiya should give security to all races. The companions of Imam Ali should be given security wherever they are. Muawiya should not seek a calamity secretly or openly for Imam Hassan, nor for Imam Hussein, nor for any of the Prophet’s Ahlul Bayt. Ref: - The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate By Wilferd Madelung Page 232 [1] - al-Hadid, Ibn Abu. Sharh Nahj al-Balagha, vol. 4. p. 6. - al-Nasaih al-Kafiya. p. 156. - Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 10. p. 115. - Tarikh al-Khulafa. p. 194. - al-Bidaya wa alNahaya, vol. 8. p. 41. - al-Asqalani, Ahmad Shahab al-Din. al-Isaba fi Tamiiz al-Sahaba, vol. 2. pp. 12, 13. - al-Dinawari, Ibn Qutayba. al-Imama wa al-Siyasa. p. 150. - Wajdi, Farid. Dairat al-Marif al-Islamiya, vol. 3. p. 443. - Umdat al-Talib. p. 52. - Sharh Nahj al-Balagha, vol. 4. p. 8. - al-Fusw al Muhimma. - al-Amili, Muhsin al-Amin. Ayan al-Shia, vol. 4. p. 43. - al-Isfahani, Abu al-Faraj. Maqatil al-Talibiyyin. p. 26. - al Hadid, Ibn Abu. Sharh Nahj al-Balagha, vol. 4. p. 15. - al-Dinawari, Ibn Qutayba. al-Imama wa al-Siyasa. p. 200. - Tarikh, vol. 6. p. 92. - Ilal al-Sharaiya. p. 81. - al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya, vol. 8. p. 14. - Tarikh, vol. 6. p. 97. - al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh, vol. 3. p. 166. - al-Nasaih al-Kafiya. p. 115.
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