Imam Hasan Askari (AS) in confronting challenges of the Imamate era on the eve of Ghayba

The Imamiyya community at the time of the Imamate of Imām Hasan Askarī (AS), despite its shortness in comparison with of that of other Imams, faced challenges able to cause serious disruptions in the path of leading his followers. Therefore, knowledge of the challenges and how to deal with them give a better understanding of the activities of the Eleventh Imam (problem and necessity). In order to identify these challenges, firstly, observing the hadith heritage and data of ancient sources about the events of the time of the Imamate of the Eleventh Imāmīyya leader, we intend to describe these challenges and context of the ones’ emergence and then explain how the Imam faced them (method). The way of Imam’s identification, deviant currents, Shiites’ staying away from the Imam so that not being able to acquire religious knowledge, differences and deviations in “wikāla” organization have been the challenges he tried to pass the Imamiyya community from the crisis provoked by the ones, through explaining the issue of Imamate, Arguing about the invalidity of deviant currents’ ideas, using the capacity of Imāmīyya scholars to spread the Ahl al-Bayt teachings, and the elders’ capacity of the region to resolve disputes and finally, providing appropriate information to Shiites in order to be safe from the deviation and betrayal of the agents of “wikāla” organization (findings).