Ali ibn Babwayh Qummi

Ali ibn Babawayh Qummi (?-939) was a Twelver Shi'a scholar from the time of the "Ghaybat al-Sughra". He's the father of Shaikh Saduq.

He wrote a letter to Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi, asking for prayer for him to have a child, as doctors had told him he could not have one. Thus was always called his son, Shaikh Saduq: "Oh you that was born by the prayer of Imam Mahdi!".