Sayyed (the word Sayyed also spelt Sayed, Sayyid, Seyyed, Syed,

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and

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. It is believed that

Sayed ''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali, sons of Muhammad' ...

s are the descendants of the Islamic prophet

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, who had traveled from

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to other countries during the time of Muhammad to spread

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. The most famous Sayed in the modern history is Sayed Ismael Balkhi, who was one of the leaders of the Hazaras in Afghanistan in the 20th Century.

Famous people from Sayed Hazara

* Sayed Ismael Balkhi *

Haji Sayed Hussain Hazara Haji Sayed Hussain Hazara (born Quetta, British India; 15 February 1917, 9 August 2002 – Quetta, Pakistan) was a Pakistani politician. He belonged to the Hazara people. He was a member of National Awami Party and was trialed in Hyderabad Tribu ...

Sayed Mansur Naderi Sayed Mansur Naderi is a leader (Sayed of Kayan) of a Hazara people, Hazara-Ismaili Shi'a community centred in Baghlan Province of Afghanistan. Like other Ismaili communities in Afghanistan and worldwide, the Baghlan Ismailis do submit to the spir ...

Sayed Nasir Ali Shah Sayed Nasir Ali Shah (Urdu and haz, ) is a Pakistani politician and parliamentarian from the Pakistan Peoples Party who is an elected member of the National Assembly (MNA). Shah hails from the city of Quetta in Balochistan and belongs to the H ...

* Aryana Sayeed * Sayed Askar Mousavi * Abdul Qayyum Sajjadi *

Sayed Anwar Rahmati Anwar Rahmati ( fa, انور رحمتی; born 1959) is an ethnic Arab- Hazara politician in Afghanistan. He was a governor of Daykundi province beginning on November 22, 2018. Previously he served as Governor of Sar-e Pol from May 25, 2010 to Ap ...

* Abrar Hussain (boxer) * Sayed Hassan Akhlaq *

Sayyid Ali Beheshti Sayyid Ali Beheshti ( fa, سید علی بهشتی) was a leader of the Shia Hazara ethnic group of Afghanistan, who became president of the '' Shura-yi Enqelabi-yi Ettefaq-i Islami-yi Afghanistan'' (Revolutionary Council of the Islamic Union of A ...

* Sayyed Mohammad Eqbal Munib *

Sayed Mustafa Kazemi Sayed Mustafa Kazemi ( prs, سید مصطفی کاظمی, 1959 – November 6, 2007) from Parwan was a prominent Afghan politician. He was one of the leaders and the spokesman for the opposition movement known as the United National Front. He was ...

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{{Hazara tribes Hazara tribes

Famous people from Sayed Hazara

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