Syed Ahmad Musavi Hindi (Persian: احمد موسوی هندی; 1800–1869) was a Twelver Shia cleric.
He was the paternal grandfather of the supreme leader of the Islamic republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini.
His family migrated towards the end of the 18th century from Nishapur in Iran to Oudh in northern India.
[4][5][8] In about 1830 he permanently left India, initially on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Ali in Najaf, Iraq.
He had five children, including a son named Mostafa (father of Ruhollah Khomeini), who was born in 1856 in Sakineh.