Imam Al Da’i Yusuf Al Akbar (D. 403AH)

Imam al-Dāʿī Yūsuf al-Akbar (Peace Be Upon Him) | Al-Tuhaf Sharh al-Zulaf
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Imam al-Dāʿī Yūsuf al-Akbar

The Elder Summoner to God — Peace Be Upon Him

Full Lineage

Al-Dāʿī ilā Allāh Yūsuf al-Akbar, son of Imam al-Manṣūr Billāh Yaḥyā, son of Imam al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh Aḥmad, son of Imam al-Hādī ilā al-Ḥaqq (may God be pleased with them).

His Rising

Year 368 AH — as attested by the great Amīr Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ḥusayn ibn Badr al-Dīn, author of Al-Shifāʾ.

Death & Burial

Ṣafar, year 403 AH, at Ṣaʿda. Buried beside his father Imam al-Manṣūr Billāh Yaḥyā at the sacred garden of Ṣaʿda.

His Identity & Rising

Imam al-Dāʿī ilā Allāh Yūsuf al-Akbar (the Elder), son of Imam al-Manṣūr Billāh Yaḥyā, son of Imam al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh Aḥmad, son of Imam al-Hādī ilā al-Ḥaqq Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn — may God be pleased with them. He also transferred his uncle Imam al-Mukhtār to the shrine of Imam al-Hādī in Ṣaʿda after twenty-five years and found him unchanged.

Attested by

The great Amīr Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ḥusayn ibn Badr al-Dīn — author of Al-Shifāʾ — said: This Imam rose in the year 368 AH.

His Death & Burial

He died at Ṣaʿda in Ṣafar of the year 403 AH. His grave is beside his father Imam al-Manṣūr Billāh Yaḥyā in the sacred garden of Ṣaʿda — alongside his grandfather Imam al-Hādī ilā al-Ḥaqq, his father, and the many Imams and martyrs gathered there.

His Children
  • Al-Qāsim
  • Al-Ḥusayn
  • Isḥāq
  • Aḥmad
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Primary Source Al-Tuḥaf Sharḥ al-Zulaf Imam Majd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾayyidī الإمام مجد الدين بن محمد المؤيدي
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