Ali ibn Babawayh Qummi
Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi (; died 939) was a Twelver Shi'a scholar from the time of the Ghaybat al-Sughra. He's the father of Shaykh 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 his son, Shaykh Saduq, was always called: "Oh you that was born by the prayer of Imam Mahdi!". References

939 deaths
Iranian Shia scholars of Islam
Year of birth unknown
10th-century Iranian people
People from Qom