Sayyid Jalāl al-Dīn was born in the village of Uch (Uch Sharif) in the Punjab region of what is now Pakistan, a descendant of Imam ʿAlī b. Muḥmmad al-Naqī, also known as al-Hādī, the tenth in the line of Twelver Shiʿi Imams (Laʿlī Badakhshī, 689–690; Chishtī, 970; Ghulām Sarwar, 29, 30). Whereas Qāḍī Nūr Allāh al-Shūshtarī described the Sayyids of Bukhārā as Shiʿis (1/146), other sources identify Sayyid Jalāl al-Dīn and his family as being Ḥanafī in orientation (L…