Hadrat Sayyid Ahmad ar- Rifâi

Hadrat Shaykh Sayyid Ahmad ar- Rifâi (1119-1182) was born on a Thursday in the first half of the lunar month of Rejab in Hasen, in the Vasit province of Iraq. When he was seven years old, his father Sayyid Sultan Ali passed away in Baghdad. From then on his maternal uncle Sayyid Mansur ar-Rabbani el-Betaihi took him into his care and educated him.

The maternal part of Hadrat Sayyid Ahmad ar- Rifâi 's family goes back to Hadrat Huseyin, the son of  Hadrat Ali(qaw). On the paternal side his lineage goes back to the Prophet Muhammad (saw) as follows:
Hadrat Ali(qaw), the master of the community, husband of Hadrat Fatima and the founder of Imams, a relative of the prophet;
Hadrat Huseyin, Imam of Muslims, the chief of the Mumins (believers in Islam) who were tried and afflicted with various troubles and calamities, the martyr of Kerbela;

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Sayyid Hadrat Ahmad ar-Rifai (K.S.)

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