Sadr ed-Deen is also the patriarch of the
Sadr family, a branch of Sharafeddine () family from
Jabal Amel in
Lebanon. The Sharafeddine family itself is a branch of the Nour eddine family, which traces its lineage to
Musa al-Kazim (the seventh
Shi'a Imam and through him to the first Imam,
Ali ibn Abi Talib and
Fatima Zahra, the daughter of
Muhammad (died 632). The as-Sadr family has produced numerous Islamic scholars in Iran, Lebanon, and
Iraq, including his son
Ismail as-Sadr (died 1919/1920) and his grandsons
Musa as-Sadr (disappeared in Libya in 1978) and
Mohammad Baqir as-Sadr (died 1980). ==See also==