Sadr al-Din al-Sadr
Iraqi ayatollah
About Sadr al-Din al-Sadr
Lived 1881 – 1954 (aged 72–73). Sadr al-Din al-Sadr was an Iraqi religious person.
Sadr al-Din Sadr (; 1882 – 26 November 1953 ) was the father of Moussa as-Sadr (disappeared in Libya in 1978) and Rabab al-Sadr, and the grandson of the Grand Ayatollah Sadr al-Din bin Saleh after whom the Sadr family of well-known scholars of Twelver Shi'a Islam has been named.
He was the second son of Sayyed Grand Ayatollah Ismail as-Sadr (d. 1920). He was born in what is today Iraq to Lebanese parents and led a religious school there. He then migrated to Khorasan where he married the daughter of Grand Ayatollah Hussein al-Qummi (:wikidata:Q20557209). Then he left to the Shia center of learning (hawzayi'ilmī) in Qom, Iran, where he became a Grand Ayatollah. He died on 26 November 1953 in Iran.
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Who was Sadr al-Din al-Sadr?
Iraqi ayatollah
When was Sadr al-Din al-Sadr born?
Sadr al-Din al-Sadr was born in 1881 in Kadhimiya.
When did Sadr al-Din al-Sadr die?
Sadr al-Din al-Sadr died in 1954.
What was Sadr al-Din al-Sadr's occupation?
Sadr al-Din al-Sadr was a religious person.
What nationality was Sadr al-Din al-Sadr?
Sadr al-Din al-Sadr was Iraqi.
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