The following is a list of the descendants of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, al-Ḥasan b. ‘Alī, al-Ḥusayn b. ‘Alī, ‘Alī b. al-Ḥusayn, Muhammad b. ‘Alī, Ja‘far b. Muhammad, Mūsa b. Ja‘far, ‘Alī b. Mūsa, Muhammad b. ‘Alī, and ‘Alī b. Muhammad taken from the Kitāb al-Irshād by Shaykh al-Mufīd. These figures are the first ten Imāms in the Twelver Shī‘ī tradition, but they are also revered by other Islamic traditions (Sunni as well as Shī‘ī as well).
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‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib
The Commander of the Faithful ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib had 27 children, male and female. [They are as follows]
1-Al-Ḥasan
2-Al-Husayn
3-Zaynab al-Kubra
4-Zaynab al-Sughra, also known as Umm Kulthūm
Their mother was Fāṭima, the blessed, the master of the women of the universe, and the daughter of the master of the messengers and seal of the prophets, Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon him and his family)
5-Muhammad, who was also known as Abū al-Qāsim
His mother was Khawla b. Ja‘far b. Qays al-Ḥanafīyya
6-‘Umar
7-Ruqayya
They were twins and their mother was Umm Ḥabīb b. Rabī‘a
8-Al-‘Abbās
9-Ja‘far
10-‘Uthmān
11-‘Abd Allāh
These all died as martyrs with their brother al-Ḥusayn at Karbala. Their mother was Umm al-Banīn b. Ḥizām b. Khālid b. Dārim
12-Muhammad al-Asghar, who was also known as Abū Bakr (son)
13-‘Ubayd Allāh (son)
Both of these also died as martyrs with their brother al-Ḥusayn at Karbala. Their mother was Layla b. Mas‘ūd al-Dārimī
14-Yahya(son)
His mother was Asmā’ b. ‘Umays al-Khath‘amī (may God be pleased with her)
15-Umm al-Ḥasan (son)
16-Ramla (daughter)
Their mother was Umm Sa‘īd b. ‘Urwa b. Mas‘ūd al-Thaqafī
17-Nafīsa (daughter)
18-Zaynab al-Sughra (daughter)
19-Ruqayya al-Sughra (daughter)
20-Umm Hāni’ (daughter)
21-Umm al-Kirām (daughter)
22-Jumāna, also known as Umm Ja‘far (daughter)
23-Umāma (daughter)
24-Umm Salama
25-Maymūna
26-Khadīja
27-Faṭīma
These all had different mothers.
[Shaykh al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād (Beirut, 2008), Volume 1, pp. 345–355]
Al-Ḥasan b. ‘Alī
Al-Ḥasan b. ‘Alī had fifteen children, both male and female. [They are as follows]:
1-Zayd b. al-Ḥasan
2-Umm al-Ḥasan
3-Umm al-Ḥusayn
Their mother was Umm Bashīr b. Abī Mas‘ūd ‘Uqba b. ‘Amr b. Tha laba al-Khazrajīyya.
4-Al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan
His mother was Khawla b. Mandhūr al-Fazārī
5-‘Umar b. al-Ḥasan
6-Al-Qāsim
7-‘Abd Allāh
Their mother was a slave-girl
8-‘Abd al-Rahmān b. al-Ḥasan
His mother was a slave-girl
9-Al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥasan, also known as al-Athram
10-Talha b. al-Ḥasan
11-Fāṭima b. al-Ḥasan
Their mother was Umm Ishāq b. Talha b. ‘Ubayd Allāh al-Taymī
12-Umm ‘Abd Allāh
13-Fāṭima
14-Umm Salama
15-Ruqayya
These were the daughters of al-Ḥasan by various slave-girls
[Shaykh al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād (Beirut, 2008), Volume 2, p. 20]
Al-Ḥusayn had six children. [They are as follows]:
1-‘Alī al-Akbar b. al-Ḥusayn, known as Abū Muhammad
His mother was Shāhzanān, the daughter of the Persian emperor Yazdigird III
2-‘Alī al-Asghar b. al-Ḥusayn
He was killed with his father on the bank of the Euphrates [at Karbala]. His mother was Layla b. Abī Murra b. ‘Urwa b. Mas‘ūd al-Thaqafīyya
3-Ja‘far b. al-Ḥusayn
He had no surviving descendants and died during the lifetime of his father. His mother was a woman from the tribe of Quḍā‘a.
4-‘Abd Allāh b. al-Ḥusayn. He was killed while still an infant with his father [at Karbala]. An arrow fired [by the Umayyad forces at Karbala] killed him while he was in his father’s arms.
5-Sukayna b. al-Ḥusayn
Their mother was Rabāb b. Imru’ al-Qays b. ‘Adī al-Kalbīyya.
6-Fāṭima b. al-Ḥusayn
Her mother was Umm Ishāq b. Talha b. ‘Ubayd Allāh al-Taymīyya
[Shaykh al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād (Beirut, 2008), Volume 2, p. 135]
‘Alī b. al-Ḥusayn
Fifteen children were born to ‘Alī b. al-Ḥusayn:
1-Muhammad, known as Abū Ja‘far al-Bāqir
His mother was Umm ‘Abd Allāh b. al-Ḥasan b. ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib
2-‘Abd Allāh
3-Al-Ḥasan
4-Al-Ḥusayn
Their mother was a slave-girl
5-Zayd
6-‘Umar
Their mother was a slave-girl
7-Al-Ḥusayn al-Asghar
8-‘Abd al-Rahmān
9-Sulaymān
Their mother was a slave-girl
10-‘Alī. He was the youngest of the children of ‘Alī b. al-Ḥusayn
11-Khadīja
Their mother was a slave-girl
12-Muhammad al-Asghar
His mother was a slave-girl
13-Fāṭima
14-‘Alīyya
15-Umm Kulthūm
Their mother was a slave-girl
[Shaykh al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād (Beirut, 2008), Volume 2, p. 155]
Muhammad b. ‘Alī
Abū Ja‘far had seven children:
1-Abū ‘Abd Allāh Ja‘far b. Muhammad
2-‘Abd Allāh b. Muhammad
Their mother was Umm Farwa b. al-Qāsim b. Muhammad b. Abī Bakr
3-Ibrāhīm
4-‘Ubayd Allāh
Both died young. Their mother was Umm Ḥakīm b. Asīd b. al-Mughīra al-Thaqafīyya
5-‘Alī
6-Zaynab
Their mother was a slave-girl
7-Umm Salama
Her mother was a slave-girl
[Shaykh al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād (Beirut, 2008), Volume 2, p. 176]
Ja‘far b. Muhammad
Abū ‘Abd Allāh had ten children:
1-Ismā īl
2-‘Abd Allāh
3-Umm Farwa
Their mother was Fāṭima b. al-Ḥusayn b. ‘Alī b. al-Ḥasan
4-Mūsa
5-Ishāq
6-Muhammad
Their mother was a slave-girl
7-Al-‘Abbās
8-‘Alī
9-Asmā’
10-Fāṭima
They had different mothers
[Shaykh al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād (Beirut, 2008), Volume 2, p. 209]
Mūsa b. Ja‘far
Abū al-Ḥasan Mūsa had thirty-seven children, male and female:
1-‘Alī b. Mūsa al-Riḍa
2-Ibrāhīm
3-Al-‘Abbās
4-Al-Qāsim
Their mothers were slave-girls
5-Ismā‘īl
6-Ja‘far
7-Hārūn
8-Al-Ḥasan
Their mother was a slave-girl
9-Ahmad
10-Muhammad
11-Ḥamza
Their mother was a slave-girl
12-‘Abd Allāh
13-Ishāq
14-‘Ubayd Allāh
15-Zayd
16-Al-Ḥasan
17-Al-Faḍl
18-Al-Ḥusayn
19-Sulaymān
Their mothers were slave-girls
20-Fāṭima al-Kubra
21-Fāṭima al-Sughra
22-Ruqayya
23-Ḥakīma
24-Umm Abīhā
25-Ruqayya al-Sughra
26-Umm Ja‘far
27-Lubāba
28-Zaynab
29-Khadīa
30-‘Aliyya
31-Āmina
32-Ḥasana
33-Burayha
34-‘Ā’isha
35-Umm Salama
36-Maymūna
37-Umm Kulthūm
Their mothers were slave-girls
[Shaykh al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād (Beirut, 2008), Volume 2, p. 244]
‘Alī b. Mūsa
‘Alī b. Mūsa died without leaving behind any children, except his son, the Imām who succeeded him, Abū Ja‘far Muhammad b. ‘Alī. At the time of his death, his son was seven years old and a few months
[Shaykh al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād (Beirut, 2008), Volume 2, p. 271]
Muhammad b. ‘Alī
The children he left behind were:
1-‘Alī, his son and the Imām to succeed him
2-Mūsa
3-Fāṭima
4-Imāma.
[Shaykh al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād (Beirut, 2008), Volume 2, p. 295]
‘Alī b. Muhammad
Among the children who survived him were:
1-Abū Muhammad al-Ḥasan, his son and the Imām to succeed him
2-Al-Ḥusayn
3-Ja‘far
4-‘Ā’isha
[Shaykh al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād (Beirut, 2008), Volume 2, pp. 311–312]
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