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ali ibn husayn zayn al-abidin

The Poet on Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn, al-Sajjad (as)

Imam Zayn al-‘Abidin, peace be on him, went to the Sacred House of Allah to perform the pilgrimage. Meanwhile Hisham b. ‘Abd al-Malik went there for the same purpose. The latter did his best to touch the Black Stone but he was unable to do that, for the people overcrowded around it.

The Period of Imam as-Sajjad (A.S.)

The period of Imam as-Sajjad (‘a) can be divided into two stages: The first stage covers the events after the martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn (‘a), the destabilization of the Umayyad rule and finally the end of rule of the Sufyanis (descendants of Abu Sufyan) and the succession to power of the Marwanis (descendants of Marwan ibn al-Hakam), the internal struggle among the Umayyads and their entanglement with the uprisings and revolts up to the stabilization of the rule of the Marwanis.

The Biography of Imam Sajjad

The 4th Imam after Imam Hussain(a.s.) was his son Imam Ali Zain-al-Abideen(a.s.). His mother was Bibi Shahar Bano who was a princess from Persia, the daughter of the Kind Yazd Gard II.

The Chain of Authorities / The Life of Imam Zayn al-Abidin

As for the chain of authorities of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiya, it goes back to the greatest Imam, Abu Ja'far al-Baqir, peace be on him, and to the immortal martyr Zayd b. Ali b. al-Hussein, peace be on him. The Chain of Authorities has been mentioned in the introduction of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiya and is confirmed by over fifty-six thousand authorities. The religious scholars received al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiya from successive authorities.1

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