In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. His Eminence Sayyid Sahib Al-Hassani was born in 1956 in the village of Al-Muzaydiyya, part of the Al-Hashimiyya district in the Babylon (Hilla) Governorate of Iraq, to devout, dedicated, and struggling parents. He is the son of the martyr Sayyid Mahdi Harith Hussein Al-Sulaiman Al-Hassani, and the brother of the martyrs Sayyid Subhi (Abu Zaynab) and Sayyid Salah, and the martyred child Amna — may Allah have mercy upon them all — who were executed by the criminal Saddamist Ba'ath regime in 1980 because of their honorable Islamic stances. He completed his primary, intermediate, and secondary education, but was denied admission to Iraqi universities because he did not belong to the Ba'ath Party, and because of the accusations leveled against his family for their opposition to the Ba'athist regime. After nearly nine years of hardship, injustice, persecution, pursuit, and imprisonment, he was forced to leave Iraq in 1986. In exile, he began a new chapter of his life, devoting himself to seminary (Hawza) studies. He completed the introductory and intermediate (sutooh) levels at the Hawza of Imam Al-Hadi (peace be upon him), as documented by the seminary's administration. He attended lessons and lectures by Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Mahdi Al-Asifi (may Allah have mercy on him) in Quranic exegesis and ethics, as well as some of the lessons of the martyr Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Al-Hakim (may Allah have mercy on him). On 13 October 1991, he moved to Syria, settling in the city of Sayyida Zaynab (peace be upon her), where he completed the remaining sutooh studies at the seminary under senior scholars of the Hawza in Sayyida Zaynab. In 1994, he began attending the advanced research stage (Bahth al-Kharij), studying under a distinguished group of leading scholars, among them: Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Tahir Al-Khaqani, Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Al-Mudarrisi, Sheikh Sultan Al-Afghani (a student of the martyr Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Al-Sadr), Ayatollah Sayyid Ahmad Al-Fehri, and Allamah Sayyid Ali Al-Amin. He continued these studies until 2000, maintaining warm and fruitful relations with all the offices of the grand maraji' in Sayyida Zaynab. Alongside his seminary studies, he was active in religious outreach (tabligh) and in social and political work. He is the founder of the Islamic Tabligh Foundation in Syria and one of its Shura (council) members, the founder of the World Social League of the Husseini Sayyids, and was a member of the Iraqi Islamic House in Syria from 1992 to 2000. Following threats and harassment from agents of Saddam's intelligence service in Damascus after relations between the two regimes were restored, he was compelled to seek exile through the United Nations office in Damascus. The United States agreed to receive him and his family as political refugees, and he relocated there. He currently resides in Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, where he served as the religious guide of the Al-Rasool Cultural Center for five years, and then of the Mosque of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) for six years. He is presently a member of the Council of Shia Muslim Scholars of North America, the founder and spiritual guide of Al Basheer Islamic Foundation, and the supervisor of all the Islamic cultural programs overseen by the Foundation's Cultural Committee. He holds ijazas (scholarly authorizations) from several of the grand maraji' and scholars, and has published works on ethics, including the series "Ethical Concepts" (Mafahim Akhlaqiyya), as well as printed and digitally compiled works on politics and history — some of which were printed and published in Lebanon — in addition to a number of political and religious articles. And all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. — The Cultural Committee, Al Basheer Islamic Foundation

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