Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn al-Husayni al-Marashi al-Shahrestani al-Haeri (Arabic: محمد حسين الحسيني المرعشي الشهرستاني الحائري; Persian: محمد حسين حسينى مرعشى شهرستانى حائرى; 1840 – February 25, 1898), known as al-Shahrestani al-Thani (transl. the second Shahrestani; the first being his brother-in-law, Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn al-Musawi al-Shahrestani), was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and poet.[1][2]
Muhammad-Husayn al-Shahrestani | |
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السيد محمد حسين الشهرستاني | |
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| Born | 1840 |
| Died | February 25, 1898 (aged 57–58) |
| Resting place | Imam Husayn Shrine |
| Religion | Islam |
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| Parent | Muhammad-Ali al-Marashi (father) |
| Jurisprudence | Twelver Shia Islam |
| Relatives | Wahid Behbahani (grandfather) |
Family and early life
edital-Sharetstani was born to Sayyid Muhammad-Ali al-Marashi, and the daughter of al-Wahid al-Behbahani. His family are originally from Shahrestan, but he was born in Kermanshah, raised in Marash, and lived and died in Karbala. Al-Shahrestani adopted the surname, al-Shahrestani after his marriage and affiliation with Sayyid Muhammad-Mehdi al-Shahrestani from the Musawid al-Shahrestani family.[3]
His lineage is as follows:[4]
Muḥammad-Ḥusayn bin Muḥammad-ʿAli bin Ismaʿil bin Muḥammad-Bāqir bin Muḥammad-Taqi bin Attaallāh bin Mehdi bin Taj al-Dīn Ḥusayn bin Nitham al-Dīn ʿAli bin ʿAbdallāh bin Muḥammad Khān bin ʿAbd al-Karīm bin ʿAbdallāh (3rd King of Tabaristan) bin ʿAbd al-Karīm bin Muḥammad bin Murtadha ʿAli bin ʿAli Khan bin Sadiq Kamāl al-Dīn bin Qawām al-Dīn bin Sadiq Kamāl al-Dīn bin ʿAbdallāh al-Naqīb bin Muḥammad bin Abu Hāshim bin Ḥusayn bin ʿAli al-Marʿashi bin ʿAbdallāh bin Muḥammad al-Akbar bin Ḥasan al-ʿAlawi bin Ḥusayn al-Asghar bin ʿAli al-Sajjad bin Ḥusayn al-Shahid bin ʿAli Ibna Abi Talib.
Works
edital-Shahrestani has books in jurisprudence and principles of jurisprudence. Some of them include:
- Ghayat al-Mas'ul wa Nihayat al-Ma'mul Fi 'Ilm al-Usul.
- Shawari' al-A'lam Fi Sharh Shara'i' al-Islam.
- Tiryak Farooq (in Persian). A critique on Shaykhism.
- Talweeh al-Ishara Fi Talkhees Sharh al-Ziyara. Analysis on the exegesis of Ziyarah al-Jami'a al-Kabira by Sheikh Ahmed al-Ahsa'i.
- Tareeq al-Najat (in Persian). A critique on Christianity.
- al-Fara'ed. A book on Arabic syntax.
- Dam' al-Ayn Ala Khasa'is al-Husayn.
- Libab al-Ijtihad
- Al-Nur al-Mubin Fi Usul al-Din.
- Asal Mussaffa.
Personal life
edital-Shahrestani married the daughter of Sayyid Muhammad-Mehdi al-Shahrestani. He had seven sons, Muhammad-Ali, Muhamamd-Jafar, Zayn al-Abideen, Murtadha, Muhammad, Abu Talib, and Ahmed.
His great-grandson is Sayyid Jawad al-Shahrestani, the son-in-law and representative of grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani.
Death
edital-Shahrestani died on February 25, 1898, and was buried in the Musawid al-Shahrestani crypt in the Imam Husayn shrine.[5]
References
edit- ^ al-Zarikli, Khayr al-Din (2016-11-15). al-A'lām [The Figures] (in Arabic). Vol. 6. Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Arqam Bin al-Arqam. p. 105.
- ^ al-ʻĀmilī, Muḥsin al-Ḥusaynī (1982). Aʻyān al-Shīʻah [Prominent Figures of the Shia] (in Arabic). Vol. 1. Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Ta'arof lil-Matboo'at. p. 210.
- ^ al-Shahroudi, Nur al-Din (1990). Tarikh al-Haraka al-Ilmiya Fi Karbala [The History of the Clerical Movement of Karbala] (in Arabic). Dar al-Uloom Liltahqeeq Wal Tiba'a Wal Nashr Wal Towzee'. p. 230.
- ^ Ṭuʻmah, Salmān Hādī (1998). Asha'er Karbala Wa 'Usariha [Tribes and Families of Karbala] (in Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Mahaja al-Baydha'. pp. 202–3.
- ^ Hadow, Hameed; Kadhma, Sami (2011). Dufana' Fi al-'Ataba al-Husayniyah al-Muqaddasah [Those buried in the holy Imam Husayn Shrine] (in Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: Kanso Press. p. 191.