Sadr al-Din al-Sadr

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Sadr al-Din al-Sadr (1882–26 November 1953) was a respected Twelver Shia scholar from the well-known Sadr family. He was the father of Moussa as-Sadr (who disappeared in Libya in 1978) and Rabab al-Sadr, and the grandson of Grand Ayatollah Sadr-eddine bin Saleh, after whom the Sadr family is named. He was born in the area that is now Iraq to Lebanese parents and led a progressive religious group there. He later moved to Khorasan, where he married the daughter of Grand Ayatollah Hussein al-Qummi, and then traveled to Qom, Iran, the Shia center of learning, where he became a Grand Ayatollah. He died in Iran on 26 November 1953.