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# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-ibn-husayn-zayn-al-abidin
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url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-ibn-husayn-zayn-al-abidin"
name: "Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin"
slug: "ali-ibn-husayn-zayn-al-abidin"
description: "He survived the massacre at Karbala that killed his father and most of his family, then spent three decades in Medina teaching Islamic law and praying while the civil wars raged. Shia Muslims know him as the fourth Imam who chose quiet devotion over uprising — and as the voice behind al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, supplications still recited today."
tagline: "Great-grandson of Muhammad and the fourth of the Shiite Imams"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "0659-01-06"
deathDate: "0713-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           24.679316
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ali al-Sajjad was born around 658, great-grandson of Muhammad and son of Husayn ibn Ali. In 680 he witnessed the Battle of Karbala, where Umayyad forces slaughtered his father's small caravan en route to Kufa; he was one of the few to survive. Taken to Damascus and treated poorly, he was eventually permitted to return to Medina. There he withdrew from the pro-Alid rebellions of the Second Fitna and devoted himself to worship and scholarship, becoming a respected authority on hadith and fiqh even among proto-Sunnis. He remained politically quiescent and drew few followers until late in life, as many Shia initially rallied to Mukhtar al-Thaqafi's armed resistance. He died around 712, possibly poisoned by the Umayyads. The mainstream Shia then followed his eldest son Muhammad al-Baqir; others followed his much younger son Zayd ibn Ali, whose failed rebellion in 740 gave birth to Zaydism.