Ibn ʻInabah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1424 or 1425

Ibn Inabah (in Arabic: اِبْن‌ِ عِنَبه‌) with the full name of Sayyid Jamaluddin Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Hussein ibn Muhanna Hassani Husseini (in Arabic: سید جمال‌الدین‌ احمد بن‌ علی‌ بن‌ حسین‌ بن مهنا حسنی‌ حسینی‌), (born 748 AH, 1347 AD/CE - died 828 AH, 1425 AD/CE, at the age of 77) was a Shiite historian and genealogist. He is from the clan of Alawi Sayyids and his genealogy is related to Hasan ibn Ali through his father and to Husayn ibn Ali through his mother. He was called Ibn Inabah (in Arabic: اِبْن‌ِ عِنَبه‌) because "Inabah Asghar" (in Arabic: عنبه اصغر) was in his lineage. However, some have mistakenly called him Ibn Utabah (in Arabic: ابن‌ عتبه‌) and Ibn Aqabah (in Arabic: ابن‌ عقبه‌). Although his sect has been questioned, some have accepted his Imamiyyah status and have only questioned whether he is a Zaydi or not. His most important work is "Umdat al-Talib fi Ansabi Ale Abi Talib" (in Arabic: عمدة الطالب فی انساب آل ابی طالب, lit. 'The Seeker's Guide to the Genealogies of the Family of Abi Talib') which is written in Arabic language. In this book, Ibn Inabah describes the biography of Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib's (the leader of Banu Hashim, a clan of the Qurayshi tribe of Mecca in the Hejazi region of the Arabian Peninsula, he being the brother of Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, the father of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad) ancestors and then his descendants. Finally, he describes in more detail the descendants of Ali ibn Abi Talib (the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the first Shia Imam) through his children: Hasan ibn Ali (the second Shia Imam), Husayn ibn Ali (the third Shia Imam), Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya, Abbas ibn Ali (also known by the kunya Abu al-Fadl, in Arabic: أَبو الْفَضْل, lit. 'The Father of the Virtues', was a son of Ali ibn Abi Talib), and Umar ibn Ali (in Arabic: عُمَر بن عَلیّ, one of the children of Ali ibn Abi Talib who accompanied his brother, Husayn ibn Ali, to Karbala and was killed on the day of Ashura) in five chapters.