Abū Mikhnaf Lūṭ ibn Yaḥyā al-Azdī, d. ca. 774

The genealogy of the children and companions of Shiʿī Imams (PBUT) is listed in this work. The attribution of the work to Abī Mukhannaf is questioned and argued. At the preface to the book, it is quoted from Abī Mukhannaf that "it is Baḥr al-Ansāb for Imams and their children". He says the book was written by Imām Jaʿfar Ṣādiq PBUH, with some text written by Imām Ḥasan ʿAskarī PBUH. It was kept in Al-Aqsa Mosque for some time before it was brought to Persia from Al-Aqsa Mosque by Sayid Abū Ṭāhir ibn jaʿfar ibn ʿUmrān ibn Mūsá ibn Imām Muḥammad Taqī PBUH in the year three hundred and fifty [AH]. It was then translated into Persian by Sayid Murtiz̤á Aʿlam al-hudá later. — Multiple dates; Iṣfahan Wadh.Minasian 285