Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali Zayn al-Abidin

In Kitab al-Irshad, al-Mufid lists al-Husayn al-Asghar, Abd al-Rahman, and Sulayman among the children of Imam Zayn al-Abidin born to an umm walad. This entry preserves Abd al-Rahman's basic identity, paternal relationship, and place within the Husayni family record of the first Islamic century.

The foundational early source does not provide the mother's personal name and records only the general status umm walad. The originally blank mother relationship has therefore not been completed; creating a mother from a later unclear attribution or name similarity would violate the controlled relationship rules.

Al-Bayhaqi's Lubab al-Ansab records Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali and his brother Sulayman separately and reports no descendants for either. The dependable surviving material does not establish a wife, child, scholarly transmission, political role, or specific public office, and none of those details has been invented.

No reliable independent report establishes his date or place of birth, date of death, or grave. The current Person file also preserves no primary shrine or geographic link. Abd al-Rahman's historical value lies less in major public events than in the accurate family entry that preserves his name within Ahl al-Bayt genealogy and demonstrates restraint toward unsupported claims.