Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn al-Husayni al-Marashi al-Shahrestani al-Haeri (; ; 1840 â February 25, 1898), known as al-Shahrestani al-Thani (; the first being his brother-in-law, Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn al-Musawi al-Shahrestani), was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and poet.
al-Sharetstani was born to Sayyid Muhammad-Ali al-Marashi, and the daughter of al-Wahid al-Behbahani. His family are originally from Shahrestan, but he was born in Kermanshah, raised in Marash, and lived and died in Karbala. Al-Shahrestani adopted the surname, al-Shahrestani after his marriage and affiliation with Sayyid Muhammad-Mehdi al-Shahrestani from the Musawid al-Shahrestani family.
His lineage is as follows:<blockquote>Muḥammad-Ḥusayn bin Muḥammad-ÿAli bin Ismaÿil bin Muḥammad-BÃÂqir bin Muḥammad-Taqi bin AttaallÃÂh bin Mehdi bin Taj al-Dën Ḥusayn bin Nitham al-Dën ÿAli bin ÿAbdallÃÂh bin Muḥammad KhÃÂn bin ÿAbd al-Karëm bin ÿAbdallÃÂh (3rd King of Tabaristan) bin ÿAbd al-Karëm bin Muḥammad bin Murtadha ÿAli bin ÿAli Khan bin Sadiq KamÃÂl al-Dën bin QawÃÂm al-Dën bin Sadiq KamÃÂl al-Dën bin ÿAbdallÃÂh al-Naqëb bin Muḥammad bin Abu HÃÂshim bin Ḥusayn bin ÿAli al-Marÿashi bin ÿAbdallÃÂh bin Muḥammad al-Akbar bin Ḥasan al-ÿAlawi bin Ḥusayn al-Asghar bin ÿAli al-Sajjad bin Ḥusayn al-Shahid bin ÿAli Ibna Abi Talib.</blockquote>
al-Shahrestani has books in jurisprudence and principles of jurisprudence. Some of them include:
al-Shahrestani married the daughter of Sayyid Muhammad-Mehdi al-Shahrestani. He had seven sons, Muhammad-Ali, Muhamamd-Jafar, Zayn al-Abideen, Murtadha, Muhammad, Abu Talib, and Ahmed.
His great-grandson is Sayyid Jawad al-Shahrestani, the son-in-law and representative of grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani.
al-Shahrestani died on February 25, 1898, and was buried in the Musawid al-Shahrestani crypt in the Imam Husayn shrine.