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Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
علي بن أبي طالب ar علی fa
4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656–661) and first Shia Imam
- Child of Abu Talib ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib and Fatimah bint Asad
- Married to Fatima, Umm ul-Banin, Umama bint Abi al-As and 5 more
- Dated 17 March 599 CE – 661 CE
Rashidun
Imam of Twelver Shiism
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 2
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656 CE – 27 January 661 CE Rashidun Number 4 in the sequence Succeeded Uthman ibn Affan · Succeeded by Hasan ibn Ali
Family
The family of Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 44
Family 44
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Abu Talib ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib leader of Banu Hashim, a clan of the Qurayshi tribe of Mecca (c.535-c.619)
- child of (mother) Fatimah bint Asad Companion and aunt of Muhammad
- of the house Alids people descended from Ali ibn Abi Talib
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of the house Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe and clan of Muhammad -
parent of (father) Abbas ibn Ali Son of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (647-680) - parent of (child) Abdullah Al-Asghar bin Ali
- parent of (child) Abdullah ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib Son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Umm al-Banin (died 680)
- parent of (child) Abu Bakr ibn Ali son of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- parent of (child) Aoun bin Ali
- parent of (child) Fatima bint Ali
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parent of (father) Hasan ibn Ali 5th Rashidun Caliph (r. 661) and second Shia Imam -
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parent of (father) Husayn ibn Ali grandson of Muhammad and the 3rd Shia Imam (626–680) - parent of (child) Ja'far ibn Ali son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (died 680)
- parent of (child) Khadija bint Ali daughter of Ali bin Abi Talib
- parent of (child) Maymouna bint Ali
- parent of (child) Muhammad al-Asghar ibn Ali son of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- parent of (child) Muhammad al-Awsat ibn Ali son of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
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parent of (father) Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah Alid political and religious leader (c.637-700) - parent of (child) Ramla bint Ali
- parent of (child) Ruqayya bint Ali daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- parent of (child) Ubayd Allah ibn Ali ibn Abdullah
- parent of (child) Umama bint Ali daughter of Ali and Fatima (626–682)
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parent of (father) Umar ibn Alí Child of Ali ibn Abi Talib -
parent of (father) Umm Kulthum bint Ali Granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
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parent of (father) Uthman ibn Ali Son of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (died 680) - parent of (child) Yahya ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib Son of Ali Ibn Abi Talib
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parent of (father) Zaynab bint Ali daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatimah bint Muhammad (626-682) -
parent of (father) محسنؑ ابنِ علیؑ Mohsinؑ ibn Aliؑ son of Fatimahۜ bint Muhammadﷺ and علیؑ ibn Abi Talibؑ - sibling of Aqil ibn Abi Talib second of four sons of Abu Talib
- sibling of Asma bint Abi Talib
- sibling of Fakhitah bint Abi Talib Female sahaba
- sibling of Ja'far ibn Abī Tālib Companion (Sahabi) and cousin of Muhammad (c. 590–629)
- sibling of Jumanah bint Abi Talib Sahaba of Muhammad
- sibling of Rayta bint Abi Talib companion and cousin of prophet Muhammad
- sibling of Talib ibn Abi Talib brother of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- sibling of Taliq ibn Abī Ṭālib
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married to Asma bint Umays Companion of Muhammad - married to Al-Sahba bint Rabi'a wife of Ali ibn Abi Talib
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married to Fatima daughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632) - married to Khawla al-Hanafiyya Wife of Ali
- married to Layla bint Mas'ud Wife of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- married to Umama bint Abi al-As Granddaughter of Muhammad
- married to Umm ul-Banin Ali bin Abi Talib's wife, whom he married after the death of his wife, Fatima Zahra
- married to أم سعيد بنت عروة بن مسعود الثقفي
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Connections
How Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 6
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- is part of caliph
- is part of caliphate
- is part of companions of the Prophet companion, disciple, scribe or family member of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- is part of Hadith of the ten promised paradise
- is part of Hadith of the Twelve Successors
- is part of Rashidun the four caliphs who, from the point of view of the Sunnis, held the caliphate after Muhammad
Identification 3
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
56 statements on this record
- 11 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 45 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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