Grave Fatema(single one) and other Imams

The Khamenei family (

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: خاندان خامنه‌ای) or Khamenei dynasty is among the

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families who claim to be descendants of the fourth

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Islam, Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (Persian/

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: علی بن حسین، زین العابدین) (known as Imam Sajjad) — according to the "Khamenei family tree". Their dwelling place(s) were/are in

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, Najaf, Tafresh, etc.

Seyyed Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...

, the Supreme Leader of Iran, is the most powerful member of the Khamenei

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. His descent, known as "Sadat-e Hosseini", is likewise connected to the third Shia Imam,

Hussain ibn Ali Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad and a ...

. An Al-Manar TV documentary broadcast in March 2020 claimed that Khamenei is the 38th descendant of the Islamic prophet

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by his son Hussain Asghar, a son of Imam Sajjad. Seyyed Ali Khamenei's father was Seyyed Javad Khamenei, and his paternal grandfather was Seyyed Hussein, who was buried in Najaf,

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(in the Wadi-us-Salaam cemetery). Seyyed Hussein's father was Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Tafresshi, who was considered a

of Aftasi, whose family tree was connected to Sultan-al-Ulama Ahmad (also known as Seyyed Ahmad). Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Tafreshi Khamenei Tabrizi (Persian: سید محمد حسینی تفرشی خامنه‌ای تبریزی) was the son of Seyyed Mohamad Taghi, who was the son of Mirza Ali-Akbar, who was the son of Seyyed Fakhr-al-Din Tafreshi. The descendants of Seyyed Fakhr-al-Din (also known as Mir-Fakhra) are called Mir-Fakhrayi.

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