Sadr (name)
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Sadr is a family name originating in the Lebanon and a branch of Moosavi family.

History

Sadr is a branch of Sharafeddine (Arabic:شرف الدين) family from Jabal Amel
Jabal Amel
Jabal Amel or Amil is a mountainous region of Southern Lebanon.The region is named after the Banu 'Amilah, a Yemenite tribe who, along with the kindred tribes of Hamadan, Lakhm, and Judham, settled in Syria, Palestine, parts of Jordan, and Lebanon. The area was known in ancient times as Jabal...

 in Lebanon
Lebanon
Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

. The Sharafeddine family itself is a branch of the Nour eddine family, which traces its lineage to Musa al-Kazim (the seventh Shi'a Imam) and through him to the first Imam, Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima Zahra, the daughter of Muhammad (d.632). The as-Sadr family has produced numerous Islamic scholars in Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq, including Ismail as-Sadr
Ismail as-Sadr
Ismail as-Sadr was a Lebanese Grand Ayatollah , a title which is used in Iran and Iraq referring to a Twelver Shi'a scholar who is a fully qualified mujtahid who asserts authority over peers and followers by virtue of sufficient study and achievement of the level of necessary competencey needed...

 (d. 1919) and his grandsons Musa Sadr (d.1978[?]) and Mohammad Baqir as-Sadr (d.1980).

List of Notables

  • Sadr al-Din bin Saleh (also Sadr-ed-Deen bin Saleh), 19th century Islamic scholar
  • Ismail as-Sadr
    Ismail as-Sadr
    Ismail as-Sadr was a Lebanese Grand Ayatollah , a title which is used in Iran and Iraq referring to a Twelver Shi'a scholar who is a fully qualified mujtahid who asserts authority over peers and followers by virtue of sufficient study and achievement of the level of necessary competencey needed...

    , (d. 1919), son of Sadr-ed-Deen bin Saleh
  • Muhammad Mahdi as-Sadr, son of Ismail as-Sadr
    Ismail as-Sadr
    Ismail as-Sadr was a Lebanese Grand Ayatollah , a title which is used in Iran and Iraq referring to a Twelver Shi'a scholar who is a fully qualified mujtahid who asserts authority over peers and followers by virtue of sufficient study and achievement of the level of necessary competencey needed...

  • Mohammad Sadeq es-Sadr, a leading Iraqi cleric
  • Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq es-Sadr (1943–1999)
  • Muqtada al-Sadr
    Muqtada al-Sadr
    Sayyid Muqtadā al-Ṣadr is an Iraqi Islamic political leader.Along with Ali al-Sistani and Ammar al-Hakim of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Sadr is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.-Titles:He is...

    , (born 1973), son of Sadr Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq es-Sadr, heads a large militia in Iraq
  • Mustafa al-Sadr, (c. 1964-1999), son of Sadr Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq es-Sadr
  • Mu'ammal al-Sadr (d. 1999), son of Sadr Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq es-Sadr
  • Sadr al-Din al-Sadr (died 1954) son of Ismail as-Sadr
  • Imam Musa as-Sadr
    Musa al-Sadr
    For the Twelver Shī‘ah Imām, see Mūsá al-KāżimMūsá aṣ-Ṣadr , also Musā-ye Sader and Moussa Sadr), was an Iranian-Lebanese philosopher and Shī‘ah religious leader who disappeared in August 1978...

    , (1928-1978?), son of Sadr al-Din al-Sadr, Lebanese religious leader
  • Haydar al-Sadr
    Haydar al-Sadr
    Ayatollah Haydar al-Sadr was born in Samarra, Iraq. His father, Ismail as-Sadr was a Grand Ayatollah and the first to be use the as-Sadr surname, which came to be associated with a long line of religious scholarship within Shia Islam...

    , (1891–1937), son of Ismail as-Sadr
  • Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, (1935–1980), son of Haydar al-Sadr and a major Islamic thinker; also known as the "Third martyr" or "Sadr I"
  • Amina Sadr bint al-Huda, daughter of Haydar al-Sadr

Ancestors

Ancestor of the Sadr family, Seyyed Saleh Musavi Ameli, was a descendant of Musa al-Kazim, the seventh Shi'a Imam, through 27 generations: Seyyed Saleh son of Mohammad son of Ebrahim son of Zeyn-ol-Abedin son of Ali Nur-od-Din son of Nur-od-Din Ali son of Ezz al-Din Hossein son of Mohammad son of Hossein son of Ali son of Mohammad son of Tadj al-Din son of Mohammad son of Jalal al-Din son of Ahmad son of Hamzeh son of Sa'adollah son of Hamzeh son of Abol-sa'adat son of Abu-Mohammad son of Mohammad son of Abol-Hassan Ali son of Abu Taher son of Mohammad son of Taher son of Hossein Al-Qat'i son of Musa Abu Sobheh son of Ebrahim son of Musa al-Kazim.

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