He was born to a wealthy clerical family in Burūjird (q.v.), his forebears being descended from the Ṭabāṭabāʾī sayyids of Iṣfahān, who trace their genealogy back to a famous Shiʿi adherent and martyr of the 3rd/9th century, Ismāʿīl al-Dībāj. One of the branches of this family appears to have settled in Burūjird in the 12th/18th century (see Burūjirdī, ʿUjāla, 128, 131). Burūjirdī’s forebears, who were generally religious scholars and marājiʿ, were related to the families of …