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The Shāh Abdol-Azīm Shrine, also known as Shabdolazim, located in Rey, Iran, contains the tomb of ‘Abdul ‘Adhīm ibn ‘Abdillāh al-Hasanī. Shah Abdol Azim was a fifth generation descendant of Hasan ibn ‘Alī and a companion of Muhammad al-Taqī. He was entombed here after his death in the 9th century.
The Shia clergy are the religious leaders of Shia Islam. Shia Islam places great importance on the guidance of clergy, and each branch of Shi'ism maintains its own clerical structure. The most well-known Shia clergy belongs to the largest branch of Shia Islam, Twelver Shi'ism. As in other branches of Islam, Shia scholars are collectively known as the ulema. Individual clerics are referred to as mullah or ākhūnd, but because those terms have developed "a somewhat pejorative connotation" since at least the 1980s, the term rūḥānī has been "promoted" as an alternative, "especially by the clerical class itself".
Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilālī al-ʿĀmirī (Arabic: سليم بن قيس الهلالي العامري, died before 714, was one of the Tabi‘un and a companion of Ali towards the end of the latter's life. Sulaym was also a loyal companion of Ali's sons Hasan and Husayn, the latter's son Ali Zayn al-'Abidin, and Muhammad al-Baqir.
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi, commonly referred to as Ibn Babawayh or al-Shaykh al-Saduq, was a Persian Shia Islamic scholar whose work, entitled Man La Yahduruhu al-Faqih, forms part of The Four Books of the Shia Hadith collection.
Abu Sa'id Aban ibn Taghlib ibn Rubah al-Kindi was an outstanding jurist-traditionist and an associate of Muhammad al-Baqir, but also of Zayn al-Abidin and Ja'far al-Sadiq. Al-Baqir is reported to have praised Aban as, "Sit in the mosque of Kufa and give legal judgment to the people. Indeed I would like to see among my Shia, people like you." He was one of the great reciters and recited the Qur'an in a special way that was famous among reciters. ShaykhTusi quoted Muhammad bin Musa bin Abi Maryam Sahib al-Lula'u as saying that he was the most prominent person of his time in this art. In addition to Quran and Hadith, Aban was also an expert in all sciences of jurisprudence, literature, vocabulary and syntax. According to TusiJafarSadiq, he once appointed him for a literary debate with the claimant.Shia scholars have considered him to be Thiqa, and scholars of Sunni scholars such as Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Yahya Ibn Moin, Abu Hatim and Nasa'i have confirmed his trustworthiness. He is considered one of the frequently quoted jurists of Ja'far's period, When he died al-Sadiq is reported to have said, "I would love to have my Shi'a like Aban b. Taghlib," and "his death grieved my heart." Aban's name appears in a good number of traditions, mostly of a practical nature. The Sheikhs of Hadith of Aban except for the 3 mentioned imams and Anas bin Malik are as follows: Sulayman b. Mihran al-A'mash, Muhammad Ibn Mankader, Simāk bin Kharasha, Ibrahim bin al-Ashtar, Abu Basir al-Asadi, Aasim bin Abi al-Najud, Abu Amr Ishaq ibn Mirar al-Shaybani, Minhal b. Amr al-Asadi, Hakem Ibn Utaiba, Abu Ishaq Amr Ibn Abd Allah Sabiei, Fuzil Ibn Amr Fuqaimi, Jahm bin UthmanMadani, Udi bin Thabit, Talha bin Masraf, Atiyya b. Sa'd b. Junada al-Awfi, IkrimahMoli Ibn Abbas and Umar bin ZarHamdani.
Al-Sadr is a Lebanese-Iraqi-Iranian clerical Shia family originating from Jabal Amel in Lebanon. They are a branch of Musawi family tracing to Musa Ibn Jaafar the seventh Shia Imam.
Al-Kisā’ī (الكسائي) Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Ḥamzah ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Uthman, called Bahman ibn Fīrūz, surnamed Abū ‘Abd Allāh, and Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Hamzah of al-Kūfah was preceptor to the sons of caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd and one of the ‘Seven Readers’ of the seven canonical Qira'at. He founded the Kufi school of Arabic grammar, the rival philology school to the Basri school founded by Sibawayh.
Sayyid Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Kāẓim also known as Ibrāhīm al-Mujāb and al-Ḍarīr al-Kūfī, was the son of Muḥammad al-ʿĀbid, and grandson of Mūsā al-Kāẓim, the seventh Twelver Shia Imam. He was the first Alid to settle in Karbala, where he died, and was buried in the Imam Husayn shrine.
Shabib ibn Abd Allah al-Nahshali was killed in the Battle of Karbala.
Yaḥyā b. Abī l-Qāsim al-Asadī (d. 150 AH / 767 AD), known as Abū Baṣīr al-Asadī or simply Abu Basir was a Imami figure in Kufa. Abu Basir al-Asadi was in the company of Muhammad al-Baqir for a long time and after that he became one of the companions of Jafar al-Sadiq. Abu Basir's name is included in the number of six companions of al-Baqir and al-Sadiq that hadiths narrated by any one of them is considered authentic by many Shi'a scholars. Some consider Abu Basir al-Moradi as one of those six people instead of Abu Basir al-Asadi. A large number of religious and jurisprudential traditions in Imamiyyah hadith books, which were narrated from al-Sadiq through Abu Basir, show the extent of their association.Shaykh Tusi listed him among the companions of Musa al-Kadhim too. In addition to narrating from imams, Abu Basir al-Asadi has conveyed Hadiths narrated from some Imami narrators such as Abu Hamza al-Thumali and Saleh (Imran) ibn Maytham.