Al-Saheefah Al-Sajjadiyyah Al-Kaamelah

Al-Saheefah Al-Sajjadiyyah Al-Kaamelah

Al-Saheefat al-Sajjadiyya is the oldest prayer manual in Islamic sources and one of the most seminal works of Islamic spirituality of the early period. It was composed by the Prophet’s great grandson, Ali ibn al-Husain, known as Zain al-Abidin (the adornment of the worshippers), and has been cherished in Shia sources from earliest times. Zain al-Abidin (a.s.) was the fourth of the Shia Imams, after his father Husain, his uncle Hasan,and his grandfather Ali, the Prophet’s son-in-law. Shia tradition considers the Saheefa a book worthy of the utmost veneration, ranking it behind only the Qur’an and Ali’s Nahj al-balagha.