Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hoseyni-Shahroudi passes away

Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hoseyni-Shahroudi has passed away at the age 94 in Tehran, Iran.‎

News ID: 445893

Date: 08 July 2019 - 19:38

RNA – Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hoseyni-Shahroudi, the son of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed ‎Mahmoud Shahroudi, passed away at the age 94 in Tehran, Iran.‎

Ayatollah Shahroudi, a prominent and distinguished scholar in the Islamic Seminary of Qom, ‎was born in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf al-Ashraf in 1925. ‎

His Eminence was the writer of “Manasik al-Hajj” (Hajj Rituals) and “Durus fi al-Ahkam al-‎Nisa” (Lessons on Women’s Rules). ‎

Ayatollah Shahroudi learned the preliminary seminary studies from his father and the late ‎Shaykh Ali al-Shahrbabaki. He also studied some of his preliminary lessons under the late ‎Shaykh ‎Shams al-Zanjani. He learned seminary books such as “al-Rasail” and “al-Makasib” ‎from his father, and the book “al-Kifayah” (on Usul al-Fiqh) from the late Grand Ayatollah ‎Mirza Hashem Amoli and the late Ayatollah Abdul-Husayn Rashti.‎

In 1941, at the age of sixteen, he began attending Dars al-Kharij (advanced level seminary ‎studies). In those studies he benefited from Ayatollah Sayyed Mahmoud Shahroudi and his ‎father. Since 1963, he has been delivering lectures in the Islamic Seminary of Qom.‎

Source: Ijtihad Network ‎

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