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Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin

علي بن الحسين زين العابدين ar سجاد fa

Great-grandson of Muhammad and the fourth of the Shiite Imams

  • Child of Husayn ibn Ali and Shahrbanu
  • Married to Fatimah bint al-Hasan
  • Dated 6 January 659 CE – 21 October 713 CE

Overview

Great-grandson of Muhammad and the fourth of the Shiite ImamsWikidata record description. Read Ali al-Sajjad in the Wikipedia reader.

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Offices held 1

  1. 680 CE – 712 CE Imam of Twelver Shiism Number 4 in the sequence Succeeded Husayn ibn Ali · Succeeded by Muhammad al-Baqir

Family tree

The family as a list · 14

Family 14

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin Great-grandson of Muhammad and the fourth of the Shiite Imams
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