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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
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
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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 1
- 680 CE – 712 CE Imam of Twelver Shiism Number 4 in the sequence Succeeded Husayn ibn Ali · Succeeded by Muhammad al-Baqir
Family
The family of Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin
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 · 14
Family 14
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 shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Husayn ibn Ali grandson of Muhammad and the 3rd Shia Imam (626–680) - child of (child) Shahrbanu alleged wife of Husayn Ibn Ali
- parent of (child) Abdullah bin Ali bin al-Hussein
- parent of (child) Husain bin Ali bin Husain
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parent of (father) Muhammad al-Baqir Fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams - parent of (father) Zayd ibn Ali Alid political and religious leader (c.695–740)
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sibling of Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn great-grandson of Muhammad (c. 652-680) -
sibling of Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn Islamic martyr - sibling of Fatima al-Sughra bint al-Husayn daughter of Husayn Ibn Ali
- sibling of Kholat bint Husayn daughter of Imam Husayn
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sibling of Ruqayyah bint Husayn daughter of Husayn ibn Ali - sibling of Safia bint Husayn
- sibling of Sakina bint Husayn Islamic princess
- married to Fatimah bint al-Hasan Daughter of Hasan ibn Ali (Son of Ali Ali ibn Abi Talib)
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin Great-grandson of Muhammad and the fourth of the Shiite Imams Sources
Sources and evidence
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18 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 16 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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