Preparatory Meeting of Sharif Murtada Conference Is to Be Held

Sayyid Murtada Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn Abu Ahmad al-Husayn ibn Musa ibn Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Ibrahim ibn Musa ibn Ja’far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Abi Talib (AS), was born In Rajab, 355 AH / 965 AD, in Karkh neighborhood, Bagdad.  His epithet was Abu al-Qasim, and he had a number of other nicknames. He was titled as Thamanini, Dhu al-Thamanin and Abu al-Thamanin, because he wrote eighty books, owned eighty villages, and lived for eighty years and eighty months.  According to a number of reports, he owned a library with up to eighty thousand books. Sayyid Murtada and his brother Sayyid Radi learned literature under the instructions by Ibn Nabata.  Then, their mothers sent them to Shaykh Mufid to learn Fiqh. As it has been reported, Shaykh Mufid visited Her Majesty FatimahPBUH in a dream as she brought along Imam HasanPBUH and Imam HusaynPBUH and said: "Teach them Fiqh". Shaykh woke up surprised, and in the same morning, Fatimah, the mother of Sayyid Murtada and Sayyid Radi, accompanied by her maids, brought along her two sons to the Shaykh. The Shaykh saluted them respectfully and stood up before them; Fatimah articulated the same words which the Shaykh had heard in his dream. Shaykh Mufid wept and narrated his dream to her and was determined to train them.