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The oldest extant book on the genealogy of the Safavid family is Safvat as-safa and was written by Ibn Bazzaz in 1350, a disciple of Sheikh Sadr-al-Din Safavi, the son of Sheikh Safi ad-din Ardabili. According to Ibn Bazzaz, the Sheikh was a descendant of a Kurdish man named Firooz Shah Zarrin Kolah who was from Sanjar, southeast of Diyarbakir. The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safvat as-Safa is: "Sheykh Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Sheykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of ‘Avaad the son of Birooz al-Kurdi al-Sanjari." Later Safavid Kings themselves claimed to be Seyyeds, which in the Silsilat-ol-nasab-i Safawiya (composed during the reign of Shah Suleiman)(1667–1694), written by Shah Hussab ibn Abdal Zahidi, the ancestry of the Safavid is traced back to the first Shi'i Imam as follows (numbering is from list of the 12 Imams):


 * Shaykh Safi al-din Abul Fatah Eshaq ibn (son of) (1252/3–1334) poet, mystic, teacher and Sufi master, the eponymous ancestor of the Safavid dynasty
 * Shaykh Amin al-Din Jabrail ibn
 * Qutb al-din ibn
 * Salih ibn
 * Muhammad al-Hafez ibn
 * Awad ibn
 * Firuz Shah Zarin Kulah ibn
 * Majd ibn
 * Sharafshah ibn
 * Muhammad ibn
 * Hasan ibn
 * Seyyed Muhammad ibn
 * Ibrahim ibn
 * SeyyedJa'afar ibn
 * Seyyed Muhammad ibn
 * Seyyed Isma'il ibn
 * Seyyed Muhammad ibn
 * Seyyed Ahmad 'Arabi ibn
 * Seyyed Qasim ibn
 * Seyyed Abul Qasim Hamzah ibn (d.866)
 * Musa al-Kazim ibn (7th Imam 12er, 765–799)
 * Ja'far As-Sadiq ibn ((6th Iman 12er/Ismā'īlī, 732–765)
 * Muhammad al-Baqir ibn 5th Imam 12er/Ismā'īlī, 712–731/733)
 * Imam Zayn ul-'Abedin ibn (4th Imam, 680–712)
 * Hussein ibn (3rd Imam, 670–680)
 * Ali ibn, (Caliph, 656–661, and 1st Imam, 632–661), cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet
 * Abi Taleb Alayha as-Salam, uncle of the Prophet

There are differences between this and the oldest manuscript of Safwat as-Safa. Seyyeds have been added from Piruz Shah Zarin Kulah up to the first Shi'i Imam and the nisba "Al-Kurdi" has been excised. The title/name "Abu Bakr" (also the name of the first Caliph and highly regarded by Sunnis) is deleted from Qutb ad-Din's name. ُSource: Husayn ibn Abdāl Zāhidī, 17th cent. Silsilat al-nasab-i Safavīyah, nasabnāmah-'i pādishāhān bā uzmat-i Safavī, ta'līf-i Shaykh Husayn pisar-i Shaykh Abdāl Pīrzādah Zāhidī dar 'ahd-i Shāh-i Sulaymnān-i Safavī. Berlīn, Chāpkhānah-'i Īrānshahr, 1924 (1303). 116 pages.

Original Persian language source of the lineage: شیخ صفی الدین ابو الفتح اسحق ابن شیخ امین الدین جبرائیل بن قطب الدین ابن صالح ابن محمد الحافظ ابن عوض ابن فیروزشاه زرین کلاه ابن محمد ابن شرفشاه ابن محمد ابن حسن ابن سید محمد ابن ابراهیم ابن سید جعفر بن سید محمد ابن سید اسمعیل بن سید محمد بن سید احمد اعرابی بن سید قاسم بن سید ابو القاسم حمزه بن موسی الکاظم ابن جعفر الصادق ابن محمد الباقر ابن امام زین العابدین بن حسین ابن علی ابن ابی طالب علیه السلام