Aminah, the daughter of Abu Muhammad Sharif Quraysh 'Alawi Husayni Madani Baghdadi (deceased 620 A.H.), was born in Baghdad and was alive during the month of Rajab in 560 A.H. She was the sister of Muhammad and Fatimah, the children of Sharif Quraysh 'Alawi al-Husayni.1

Her Merits

She learned the sciences from her father and, afterward, attended the class of Shaykh 'Ali Abu Talib Baghdadi and studied under him. With others (whose names have been recorded in the back of the book by her father as being Sharaf al-Nisa Ibn Abi Talib,2 her brother Muhammad and her sister Fatimah3), she studied the text of Fadl al-Kufah.4

• 1. Mustadrak A'yan al-Shi'ah, vol. 3, p. 159.
• 2. Sharaf al-Nisa' was the daughter of Abu Talib al-'Alawi al-Husayni al-Baghdadi, and the mother of Aminah. Her biography is included in this book.
• 3. Fatimah was the daughter of Muhammad Sharif Quraysh. Her biography is included in this book.
• 4. Fadl al-Kufah was written by Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad Ibn 'Ali Ibn al-Husayn Ibn 'Ali Ibn al-Husayn Ibn 'Abd al-Ralman al-'Alawi al-Husayni, who died in 455 A.H. There is a handwritten copy of this book in the Zahiriyyah Library in Damascus and a copy in the Amir al-Mu'minin Library in Najaf (Mustadrak A'yan al-Shi'ah, vol. 3, p. 91; al-Dhari'ah, vol. 16, p. 272).