Umm al-Hasan was the daughter of al-Hasan Ibn 'Ali Ibn al-Husayn Ibn 'Ali, known as Ibn Shadqam al-Husayni al-Madani. She was a learned and scholarly woman from the tenth century after the migration of the Prophet (S). On the anniversary of Ghadir in the year 983 A.H., Shaykh 'Izz al-Din al-Husayni1 granted her, her father and her brothers permission to narrate traditions.2

• 1. Shaykh 'Izz al-Din Ibn Shaykh 'Abd al-Samad Ibn Shaykh Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Jab’i al- 'Amili al-Ha'iri al-Hamdani (the father of Shaykh al-Baha'i) passed away in the year 984 A.H. and was a great Shi 'ah religious scholar.
• 2. Al-Dhari'ah, vol. 1, p. 186, no. 962.