Name and Lineage

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbdullāh—known as ʿAwaḍ—ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣalāḥ—known as al-Ṣaʿdī—ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣalāḥ ibn Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Hādī ibn Ṣalāḥ ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Imām ʿAlī ibn al-Muʾayyad ibn Jibrīl ibn Faqīh Āl Muḥammad al-Muʾayyad ibn Tarjumān al-Dīn Aḥmad—known as al-Mahdī—ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Dāʿī ilā Allāh Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Nāṣir ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Imām al-Muntaṣir li-Dīn Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Imām al-Qāsim al-Mukhtār ibn al-Imām al-Nāṣir Aḥmad ibn al-Imām al-Hādī ilā al-Ḥaqq Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Najm Āl al-Rasūl al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm Ṭabāṭabā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Dībāj ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shabah ibn al-Ḥasan al-Muthannā ibn al-Ḥasan al-Sibt ibn the Commander of the Faithful and Imām of the Godfearing, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may Allah’s blessings be upon them.

A lineage that has risen above the Pleiades in loftiness,
And has illuminated among the cluster of stars a light.