Sadr al-Din al-Sadr

Who was Sadr al-Din al-Sadr?

Sadr al-Din Sadr was the father of Imam Moussa as-Sadr and the grandson of the Grand Ayatollah Sadr-eddine bin Saleh after whom the Sadr family of well known scholars of Twelver Shi'a Islam has been named.

He is the second son of Sayyed Grand Ayatollah Ismail as-Sadr. He was born in Iraq to Lebanese parents and led a progressive religious group there. He then migrated to Khorasan where he married the daughter of Grand Ayatollah Hussein al-Qummi. Then he left to the Shia center of learning in Qom, Iran, where he became a renowned Grand Ayatollah. He died in 1954.