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Zayn al-ʿAbidin is said to have died in 94/712 or 95/713; other dates mentioned are 92, 93, 99 and 100. He was buried in al-Baqi cemetery. Shiʿi authors maintain that he was poisoned on the orders of the reigning caliph al-Walid or his brother Hisham. He is said to have had between eight and fifteen offspring, of whom four were sons from his wife Umm ʿAbd Allah bt. al-Hasan b. ʿAli, the rest being from concubines.  
Zayn al-ʿAbidin is said to have died in 94/712 or 95/713; other dates mentioned are 92, 93, 99 and 100. He was buried in al-Baqi cemetery. Shiʿi authors maintain that he was poisoned on the orders of the reigning caliph al-Walid or his brother Hisham. He is said to have had between eight and fifteen offspring, of whom four were sons from his wife Umm ʿAbd Allah bt. al-Hasan b. ʿAli, the rest being from concubines.  
==Works==
==Works==
A number of short texts are ascribed to Zayn al-ʿAbidin, including a certain al-Sahifa fi ’l-zuhd (Kulini, Kafi , viii, 14-7). He is also credited with a Risalat al-Ḥuquq , preserved (in two versions) in two 4th/10th century works: Ibn Babawayh’s al-Khisal (Najaf 1391/1971, 529-36) and Ibn Shuʿba’s Tuhaf al-ʿuqul (Beirut 1394/1974, 184-95). ʿAli’s collection of prayers known as al-Sahifa al-kamila or al-Sahifa [ al-kamila ] al-sajjadiyya gained wide popularity; there are numerous redactions and over twenty commentaries, and it was translated into Persian in the Safavid period. Fifteen “whispered prayers” (munajat) ascribed to Zayn al-ʿAbidin have been added to several modern editions of the Sahifa: an English translation of the entire work is now available (Imam Zayn al-ʿAbidin ʿAli b. al-Hussain, The Psalms of Islam: al-Sahifat al-kamilat al-sajjadiyya , tr. with an introd. and annotation by W.C. Chittick, London 1988).
A number of short texts are ascribed to Zayn al-ʿAbidin, including a certain al-Sahifa fi ’l-zuhd.<ref>Kulini, Kafi , viii, 14-7</ref> He is also credited with a Risalat al-Ḥuquq , preserved (in two versions) in two 4th/10th century works: Ibn Babawayh’s al-Khisal <ref>Najaf 1391/1971, 529-36</ref> and Ibn Shuʿba’s Tuhaf al-ʿuqul.<ref>Beirut 1394/1974, 184-95</ref> ʿAli’s collection of prayers known as al-Sahifa al-kamila or al-Sahifa [ al-kamila ] al-sajjadiyya gained wide popularity; there are numerous redactions and over twenty commentaries, and it was translated into Persian in the Safavid period. Fifteen “whispered prayers” (munajat) ascribed to Zayn al-ʿAbidin have been added to several modern editions of the Sahifa: an English translation of the entire work is now available.<ref>Imam Zayn al-ʿAbidin ʿAli b. al-Hussain, The Psalms of Islam: al-Sahifat al-kamilat al-sajjadiyya , tr. with an introd. and annotation by W.C. Chittick, London 1988</ref>
 
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