History

Qasim ibn Hasan (Arabic: ?????? ?? ??????) ( Sha'aban 7, 47 AH /September 19, 668 CE– Muharram 10, 61 AH /October 10, 680 CE), was the son of Hassan ibn Ali and grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatimah. He took part in battle of Karbala and was killed. Qasim was born three years before the death of his father, Hasan ibn Ali, Shia's second Imam. He, like his cousins, Aun and Muhammad, who were his aunt Zaynab's sons. He learn fencing from his uncle Abbas ibn Ali and his cousin Ali Akbar. When Hasan's brother Husayn ibn Ali prepared to leave Medina in 680, Qasim's mother Umm Farwa asked Husayn to take her and Qasim with him.

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