Mohammed Hussain al-Shahrestani explained

Honorific-Prefix:	Grand Ayatollah Sayyid
Muhammad-Husayn al-Shahrestani
Birth Date:	1840
Birth Place:	Kermanshah, Iran
Death Place:	Karbala, Ottoman Empire
Resting Place:	Imam Husayn Shrine
Native Name:	Arabic: السيد محمد حسين الشهرستاني
Background:	ABE9CC
Jurisprudence:	Twelver Shia Islam
Religion:	Islam
Parents:	Muhammad-Ali al-Marashi (father)
Relatives:	Wahid Behbahani (grandfather)

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn al-Husayni al-Marashi al-Shahrestani al-Haeri (ar|محمد حسين الحسيني المرعشي الشهرستاني الحائري; fa|{{nq|محمد حسين حسينى مرعشى شهرستانى حائرى; 1840 – February 25, 1898), known as al-Shahrestani al-Thani (; the first being his brother-in-law, Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn al-Musawi al-Shahrestani), was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and poet.^{[1] [2]}

Family and early life

al-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

al-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

al-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

al-Shahrestani died on February 25, 1898, and was buried in the Musawid al-Shahrestani crypt in the Imam Husayn shrine.^[5]

References

1. Book: al-Zarikli, Khayr al-Din. al-A'lām. 2016-11-15. Dar al-Arqam Bin al-Arqam. 6. Beirut, Lebanon. 105. ar. The Figures.
2. Book: al-ʻĀmilī, Muḥsin al-Ḥusaynī. Aʻyān al-Shīʻah. Dar al-Ta'arof lil-Matboo'at. 1982. 1. Beirut, Lebanon. 210. ar. Prominent Figures of the Shia.
3. Book: al-Shahroudi, Nur al-Din. Tarikh al-Haraka al-Ilmiya Fi Karbala. 1990. Dar al-Uloom Liltahqeeq Wal Tiba'a Wal Nashr Wal Towzee'. 230. ar. The History of the Clerical Movement of Karbala.
4. Book: Ṭuʻmah, Salmān Hādī. Asha'er Karbala Wa 'Usariha. Dar al-Mahaja al-Baydha'. 1998. Beirut, Lebanon. 202–3. ar. Tribes and Families of Karbala.
5. Book: Hadow. Hameed. Dufana' Fi al-'Ataba al-Husayniyah al-Muqaddasah. Kadhma. Sami. Kanso Press. 2011. Beirut, Lebanon. 191. ar. Those buried in the holy Imam Husayn Shrine.

See also

• al-Shahrestani family
• al-Qazwini family
• Ali al-Sistani