12. Codices Attributed to al-‘Imam al-Hasan (A)

Among the codices attributed to some famous sahabah of the Prophet (S) – other than ‘Uthman and ‘Ali (A), which have been already discussed – are three codices ascribed to al-‘Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba (A). The first one is kept in the Qur’anic collection of Astaneh e Quds-a Radawi. It bears the serial number 12 and contains from the twenty third juz’ to the twenty-fifth juz’ of the Qur’an in 122 folios of deerskin. ⁶² In Kufic script, it has inscribed on it the words: “al Hasan ibn ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib” with the date 41 H. On the first folio is a dedication (waqfnameh) by Shah ‘Abbas Safawi and bearing the signature of al-Shaykh al-Bahai who attributes it to al-‘Imam al-Hasan (A), who is mentioned thus:

The second codex is the one placed upon the sarcophagus at the tomb of ‘Ali (A) at Najaf. ⁶³ The third one, written on ten folios of deerskin, was seen by this writer in the library of Ustad Mahmud Farrukh Khurasani. Apparently, it is still in the possession of his family. It starts with the twelfth verse of Sura al Nisa’ and ends at the seventh verse of Surat al-Tawbah. It bears the signatures of Hasan ibn ‘Abbas, al-Safawi Bahadur Khan and Isma’il al-Musawi al-Hasani Bahadur Khan, indicating that they got the blessed chance to view this manuscript ⁶⁴ It is not very unlikely that this third manuscript is a part of either the Qur’an at Astaneh-ye Quds-e Radawi or the one at Imam Ali’s tomb, from which it might have been separated. Incidentally, it should be remembered that the Qur’an in the possession of Ustad Farrukh and his family does not contain more than 10 leaves and it cannot comprise nearly six parts (juz’) of the Qur’an, i.e. from the fourth to the tenth. Without doubt it consists of scattered leaves of the Qur’an attributed to the Imam that were collected and bound without attention to sequence.