Abū Rāfiʿ, Āl, an eminent Shiʿi family descended from one of the first converts to Islam. The head and founder of the family was Abū Rāfiʿ, a well-known Companion and client (mawlā) of the Prophet, who had granted him his freedom. Al-Najāshī (pp. 2–3) considers him one of the righteous individuals of the first generations of Muslims (al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ). Other members of the family mentioned in rijālī sources are ʿUbayd Allāh b. Abī Rāfiʿ and his four sons Muḥammad, ʿAwn, ʿAbd Allāh and al-Fa…