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First four caliphates are the true ones, later kingships prevailing..

Hasan remained caliph for six months and Muhammad predicted that "the caliphate after me in my ummah will last for thirty years. Then there will be kingship after that."[1] And those six months of Hasan ibn Ali is included in caliphate.[2]

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