Muhammad bin Fadlallah al-Sarawi

He was born in Pahneh Kola, a village of Sari to a Tabari Musawi family. He first started his religious educations with his father then moved to Ottoman Iraq and studied from ulema of Najaf and Samarra, such as Mirza Shirazi. His efforts to promote da'wah in Iran failed.

• Honorific Prefix — Sayyid • Name — Muhammad bin Fadlallah al-Sarawi • Native Name — محمد بن فضلالله ساروی • Born — c. 1880 • Pen Name — Hashemi • Birthplace — Sari, Tabaristan, Sublime State of Persia • Died — May 1924 • Place of death — Najaf, Kingdom of Iraq • Resting Place — Najaf • Occupation — * Islamic jurist • writer • poet • Language — Persian and Arabic • Genre — Religious literature • Subject — Ja'fari jurisprudence, Arabic and Persian Islamic poetry

His nasab is Muhammad bin Fadlallah bin Khudadad bin Mir-Rashid bin Hamzah bin Aqa-Beig... ends to Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Kazim, Al-Musawi Al-Tabaristani al-Sarawi al-Gharavi. He was born and rose in Pahneh Kola, Sari, Tabaristan under Qajar rule. His birth year is unknown. He studied the principles of Ja'fari jurisprudence and Arabic language sciences from his father first, then emigrated to Ottoman Iraq and studied under a group of Najaf's ulema, passed some grades then moved to Samarra and learned from Mirza Shirazi. Then he returned to Najaf and became a student of Habibullah Rashti for eight years. After finishing his religious education, he returned to Iran to promote da'wah, but failed due to poor public acceptance and produced some antagonism. He returned to Iraq in 1901. In Najaf, he continued his religious scholarly activities, focused on reading, researching, writing, and composing poetry in both Arabic and Persian languages. He taught in one of the mosques of Najaf. Al-Sarawi has been isolated from society in his last years, until he died in May 1924/ Shawwal 1342 AH in Najaf, Kingdom of Iraq.

Al-Sarawi was a literary poet in both Persian and Arabic, and his pen name was “Al-Hashimi or Hashemi”. He wrote two poetry collections, one in Persian Anwār al-Hudā (1913) and one in Arabic Mishkāt al-Anwār, not published. Al Babtain dictionary of contemporary Arab poets described him a "A traditional poet, he wrote for the purposes of his time, such as ghazal, praise, rithā' and poetic debates. What we got from his poetry is a poem of symbolic ghazal in which he preserved the Arabic traditional poetry forms".

Fiqh: •, five volumes •, three volumes * * * * * * Poetry collections: * •, 1913