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Can you provide sources that clarify who is included in the category of Sayyid? Are only descendants of Imams Hassan and Husayn considered Sayyids, or are descendants of Imam Ali (a) through his other wives also included?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Bani Hashim are the family of the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) who have special rules in Islamic Sharia including the rule of obligatory Sadaqa being not allowed for any of them. Bani Hashim are all the grandchildren of Hashim who was the great grandfather of the Prophet (SAWA).

Sayyeds are known as children of Ali and Fatima (AS). Children of Imam Ali (AS) from other wives are from Bani Hashim but not from Fatima (AS).

Wassalam.
What does the Quran and Hadith say about the status of being a Syed? Are there any reliable sources or Hadith that I can refer to in order to correct the mistaken belief of some Syeds who consider themselves superior based solely on their lineage?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Sayyeds are from family tree of the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and we need to respect them from the sake of respecting the Prophet (SAWA) and Ahlul Bayt (AS) as far as they follow basic faith of the Prophet (SAWA) and Ahlul Bayt (AS). If a Sayyed disrespects or goes against the main facts and teachings of the Prophet and Ahlul Bayt (AS), he will not be entitled to receive the respect which he has gone against.

Piousness and Taqawi is the main criteria in Islam. Son of Prophet Noah was destroyed because he disobeyed his father. We have also in our history some Sayyeds who harmed Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq (AS) and tried to kill him like Al-Hasan al-Aftas الحسن الآفطس 

‘Pious Sayyeds deserve respect as much as they are pious in following the Prophet  (SAWA) and Ahlul Bayt (AS). Disobeying Sayyed is a sinner who can never like the pious Sayyed.

Wassalam.
Is it fair that in Jannah, if a Syeda and a non-Syeda woman have the same level of piety, the Syeda woman will receive a higher position because she receives double rewards for her good deeds?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

There is no discrimination whatsoever in Islam neither in this life nor in the hereafter. Every believer will get the reward of there good deeds equally. Obviously same good deed has different degrees of sincerity which will be reflected in the reward of it. There is no discrimination at all because of ethnic or family matters. Allah Sats in Quran ( Every one will be getting his own deeds). Sura 52, verse 21.

Wassalam.
Should a man treat his two wives, one being Syeda and the other being non-Syeda, equally or should he give more respect to the Syeda wife?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Husband must treat his wives equally no matter from what background they come from. The respect for Sayyida wife is must but it does not mean at all discriminating his other wife or ignoring justice in treating her. Practical justice in compulsory otherwise no permission to marry more than wife without practical justice between them.

Wassalam.