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Zayd ibn Ali
زيد بن علي ar زید بن علی fa
Alid political and religious leader (c.695–740)
- Child of Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin
- Dated 695 CE – 740 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
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Life
Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
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.
Family
The family of Zayd ibn Ali
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 · 8
Family 8
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.
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child of (child) Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin Great-grandson of Muhammad and the fourth of the Shiite Imams - of the house Alids people descended from Ali ibn Abi Talib
- parent of (child) Husayn ibn Zayd
- parent of (child) Isa bin Zayd bin Ali
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parent of (father) Yahya ibn Zayd son of Zayd ibn Ali - sibling of Abdullah bin Ali bin al-Hussein
- sibling of Husain bin Ali bin Husain
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sibling of Muhammad al-Baqir Fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
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.
Studied under 1
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.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
12 statements on this record
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Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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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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