Ali al-Akbar ibn Hasan

Ali Akbar
Born868–874
Died
Other namesAbdullah, Akbar, Asghar, al-Taqi, al-Muttaqi, Muhammad or Mahmoud
Children
  • Sayyid Abu Muhammad Mahmud al-Makki
  • Sayyid Ali al-Asghar
  • Sayyid Uthman
  • Sayyid Musa
  • Sayyid Isa
  • Sayyid Husayn
ParentHasan al-Askari
RelativesMuhammad (forefather),
Fatimah (sister),
Muhammad al-Mahdi (brother),
Musa (brother),
Ja'far (brother),
Ibrahim (brother)

Sayyid Ali al-Akbar ibn al-Hasan (Arabic: سید علي الأكبر بن الحسن, romanizedSayyid ʿAlī al-Akbar ibn al-Ḥasan) was a Sunni Muslim saint, and according to some historians of genealogy the second son of Imam Hasan al-Askari, the eleventh Imam of the Ahlul-Bayt.

Sayyid Ali al-Akbar is venerated in Sunni and Shiite Islam as the patriarch of various Sufi Saints.