Sayyid
''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Prophets in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali ...
Jawad Kadhim Nasrallah (; died January 2, 1808) was an
Iraqi nobleman that served as the 21st custodian of the
Imam Husayn shrine
The Imam Husayn Shrine ( ar, مَقَام ٱلْإِمَام ٱلْحُسَيْن ٱبْن عَلِيّ, Maqām al-ʾImām al-Ḥusayn ʾibn ʿAlī) is the mosque and burial site of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Imam of Shia Islam, in the city of ...
from 1802 until 1808.
Biography
Nasrallah was born c. 1725 to Kadhim Nasrallah. His grandfather
Nasrallah al-Faizi, is the patriarch of the Nasrallah family, and a prominent scholar and poet. He hails from the noble
Al Faiz family
The family of Al Faiz ( ar, آل فائز, ʾĀl Fāʾiz; ), also transliterated in a number of other ways, including Al Fa'iz, Al Fa'ez, Al Faez, or Al Fayez, is the oldest Alids, Alid family of Karbala, which they have occupied, on some occasion ...
.
After Musa al-Wahab was killed in the
sack of Karbala on April 22, 1802, some of the city's dignitaries, Sayyid Ali al-Tabatabei, Sayyid Murtadha Al Daraj (the ''naqib'' then), Sheikh Ali Abd al-Rasool (' of the Abbas shrine), sent a transcript to the governor,
Sulayman Pasha, requesting that Nasrallah be the ' of the Husayn shrine, and so on June 2, 1802, an imperial decree was issued declaring Nasrallah the ' of the Husayn shrine.
Due to his position, Nasrallah was sometimes known as Jawad ''al-Killidar'' (), which roots from the Persian words, kileet () and dar (), which translates to key holder. This was a name often given to those that take on the role of tending to holy shrines.
However, Nasrallahs descendants did not carry the name, and remained with Nasrallah.
With the help of the son of Sayyid Muhammad Mehdi al-Shahristani (d. 1801), he combined the mosque that headquartered the Sunni
mufti
A Mufti (; ar, مفتي) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion ('' fatwa'') on a point of Islamic law (''sharia''). The act of issuing fatwas is called ''iftāʾ''. Muftis and their ''fatwas'' played an important rol ...
of Karbala with the grand courtyard, forcing the garrison of Karbala, Amin Agha Turk, to relocate the mufti to the small courtyard also known as the
Buyid
The Buyid dynasty ( fa, آل بویه, Āl-e Būya), also spelled Buwayhid ( ar, البويهية, Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Shia Iranian dynasty of Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over Iraq and central and southern Iran from 934 to 1062. Coupl ...
graveyard.
In 1804, he supervised the expansion of the precinct of the grave, adding
Ibrahim al-Mujab
Sayyid Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Kāẓim ( ar, إبْرَاهِيم بْنِ مُحَمَّد بْنِ مُوسَى الكَاظِمْ) also known as Ibrāhīm al-Mujāb and al-Ḍarir al-Kūfī, was the son of Muḥammad al-ʿĀbid, ...
's grave and ''rawaq'' (hallway) to the north west side of the precinct.
His son Ali al-Tawil (progenitor of House ''al-Tawil'' of Al Nasrallah), was appointed as '','' after his death.
Death
Nasrallah died on Saturday, January 2, 1808, and was buried in the Al Nasrallah graveyard in the Imam Husayn shrine.
See also
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Imam Husayn shrine
The Imam Husayn Shrine ( ar, مَقَام ٱلْإِمَام ٱلْحُسَيْن ٱبْن عَلِيّ, Maqām al-ʾImām al-Ḥusayn ʾibn ʿAlī) is the mosque and burial site of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Imam of Shia Islam, in the city of ...
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Al Faiz family
The family of Al Faiz ( ar, آل فائز, ʾĀl Fāʾiz; ), also transliterated in a number of other ways, including Al Fa'iz, Al Fa'ez, Al Faez, or Al Fayez, is the oldest Alids, Alid family of Karbala, which they have occupied, on some occasion ...
References
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People from Karbala
1802 deaths
Custodian of the Imam Husayn Shrine
18th-century Arab people
19th-century Arab people