Aliyya bint Ali Zayn al-Abidin

In Kitab al-Irshad, al-Mufid ends his list of Imam Zayn al-Abidin's fifteen children by naming Fatima, Ulayya, and Umm Kulthum as daughters of one umm walad. This early list is the primary support for Ulayya's identity and paternal relationship. Al-Majdi fi Ansab al-Talibiyyin likewise preserves Ulayya as a distinct name among the Imam's nine daughters.

The foundational sources describe the mother only by the general status umm walad and supply no personal name. The originally blank mother relationship has therefore not been completed. Creating a mother from a later unclear attribution, a local family tree, or name similarity would conflict with both historical discipline and the controlled relationship rules.

Ulayya's most distinctive scholarly identification is preserved in Rijal al-Najashi. Al-Najashi states that she had a book and records its transmission through Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Qasim, Raja ibn Jamil, his father Jamil ibn Salih, Zurara ibn Ayan, and finally Ulayya. The entry does not preserve the book's title or surviving text, but the attribution demonstrates that she was more than a genealogical name and was remembered as a woman connected with a transmitted written work in early Imami scholarship.

No dependable independent detail has been found for her date or place of birth, marriage, children, death, or grave. Some later genealogical passages contain family connections involving women of the same name, but homonym risk and complex lineage wording do not justify converting them into spouse or child relationships for this record. The file also has no protected shrine or geographic link, so burial remains unknown.