Sharif Radhi

His elder brother al-Sharif al-Murtada was also a theologian and poet. His work is still published in the universities of Cairo and Beirut, and is part of the course of Arabic literature.

Training under Shaykh Saduq and Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid is recorded. Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami is recorded as having studied under Sharif Radhi. The recorded working language is Arabic. Works named in the authority record are Nahj al-Balagha and Khasais of Al Aemmah.

• Religion — Islam • Era — Islamic golden age • Name — Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Musa مُحَمَّدٌ بنُ الحُسَيْنِ بنِ مُوْسَى • Title — al-Sharif al-Radi الشَّرِيْفِ الرَّضِيِّ • Born — 970 • Birthplace — Baghdad, Iraq • Died — 1015 970 • Place of death — Kadhimiya, Baghdad • Denomination — Shia • Sect — Twelver • Jurisprudence — Ja'fari • Main Interests — Tafsir, Arabic literature • Influences — Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid • Notable Works — Peak of Eloquence (collection of Imam Ali quotations) • Native Name — الشَّرِيْفِ الرَّضِيِّ مُحَمَّدٌ بنُ الحُسَيْنِ بنِ مُوْسَى • Honorific Prefix — Sayyid

Al-Radi's father, Abu Ahmad al-Husayn ibn Musa, was a descendant of Ibrahim al-Asghar, the son of the seventh Shia imam, Musa al-Kazim. There are also claims that he is the descendant of Ibrahim al-Mujab, the grandson of al-Kazim. His mother was the granddaughter of Hasan al-Utrush, a descendant of the fourth Shia imam, Ali Zayn al-Abidin. For this reason, he was also known as thil hasabayn (the possessor of two lineages), since he relates back to the Ahl al-Bayt paternally and maternally.

Al-Radi was born in 970 in the Abbasid capital, Baghdad, and died in 1015 in his hometown. His grave is located in Kadhimiya, Baghdad. Al-Radi was the third of four children, having two sisters and a brother. After his father's death, he took the post. Al-Radi's family was affluent, as his mother Fatima inherited a good fortune from her father. She sponsored the family when the property of her husband was confiscated by the Buyid prince 'Adud al-Dawla.

The book is a collection of sermons, precepts, prayers, epistles, and aphorisms of Ali and compiled by al-Radi in the tenth century. A number of his contemporaries wrote commentaries on al-Radi's compilation.

Ali's sermons were compiled, read, and taught before al-Radi was born. The services of al-Radi are now regarded as significant in the philosophy of monotheism. Collected sermons in the Nahj al-Balagha cover Islam, theology and metaphysics; worship, wisdom, philosophy; piety and the afterlife. However, critics of the Nahj al-Balagha generally raise two objections: they claim that al-Murtada is one of the authors, and most of the contents are not by Ali.

Scholar Abu Ahmad Adnan was his child. There were no grandchildren.