[citation needed] He was the second son of Sayyed Grand Ayatollah Ismail as-Sadr (d.1920).
He was born in what is today Iraq to Lebanese parents and led a progressive religious group there.
He then migrated to Khorasan where he married the daughter of Grand Ayatollah Hussein al-Qummi (wikidata:Q20557209).
Then he left to the Shia center of learning (hawzayi'ilmī) in Qom, Iran, where he became a Grand Ayatollah.
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