Ali ibn Babwayh Qummi
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Ali ibn Babawayh Qummi was a Twelver Shi'a scholar from the time of the Ghaybat al-Sughra. He's the father of Shaikh Saduq.
He wrote a letter to Imam
Muhammad al-Mahdi
, asking for prayer for him to have a child, as doctors had told him he could not have one. Thus was always called his son, Shaikh Saduq: "Oh you that was born by the prayer of Imam Mahdi!".
He wrote a letter to Imam
Imam
An imam is an Islamic leadership position, often the worship leader of a mosque and the Muslim community. Similar to spiritual leaders, the imam is the one who leads Islamic worship services. More often, the community turns to the mosque imam if they have a religious question...
Muhammad al-Mahdi
Muhammad al-Mahdi
Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī is believed by Twelver Shī‘a Muslims to be the Mahdī, an ultimate savior of humankind and the final Imām of the Twelve Imams...
, asking for prayer for him to have a child, as doctors had told him he could not have one. Thus was always called his son, Shaikh Saduq: "Oh you that was born by the prayer of Imam Mahdi!".