), also transliterated Muhsin al Amin, was a Shia scholar, biographer, traditionist, and jurist.

[1] Al-Amin was born in 1867 to a well-known Sayyid family in Jabal Amil, Lebanon.

His father, Abdul al-Karim al-Amili, was a scholar of his time.

[2] Sayyed Mohsen began to study the Qur'an and elementary Arabic grammar at the age of seven under a village teacher.

[3] He was among the first Shi’i modernists and received widespread condemnation by the Shia community of Lebanon for his endeavours in attempting to change and reform the religion, particularly when it came to issues of tatbir, which he was against.