Al-Sayyed Mohsen al-Amin, also transliterated Muhsin al Amin, was a Shia scholar, biographer, traditionist, and jurist. He was born in Jabal Amil, Lebanon. His most important work is A'yan al-Shi'a.
 
Al-Amin was born in 1867 to a well-known Sayyid family in Jabal Amil, Lebanon.He was famous for al-Amin or the trusted one.
 
 His father, Abdul al-Karim al-Amili, was a scholar of his time. His father died in Iraq was buried, when he had gone to pilgrimage Iraq.
 His maternal grandfather was ′Shaykh Muhammad Hussein al Amili al Musawi, was one of the scholars who went to Najaf to education and died there.
 
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