He is al-Sayyid al-Mir Hamid Husayn, son of al-Sayyid Muhammad Quli, son of al-Sayyid Muhammad, son of al-Mir Hamid al-Nishapuri al-Kunturi. To this day, more than twelve volumes of his book, «عبقات الانوار فی مناقب ائمه الاطهار», have been published. Although the book is not specifically a subject of Ilm al-Rijal (the science of biographical evaluation), most of its pages contain biographies of individuals, whether common or elite, mentioning their dates, their works, and their *Jarh wa Ta’dil* (evaluation of reliability). Thus, it is one of those theological, historical, and biographical (Rijali) books that has achieved unparalleled depth.