Sadr al-Din al-Sadr
Sadr al-Din Sadr was the father of 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 what is today 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 on 26 November 1953 in Iran.
