Zayd ibn ‘Ali (, also spelled Zaid, Zayyed; 695–740) was the grandson of Husayn ibn Ali, and great-grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib. Zayd was born in Medina in 695. He is the son of Ali ibn Husayn "Zayn al-Abidin". Ibn Qutaybah in his book “al-Ma‘arif” republished in 1934 from Egypt writes (at page-73) that one of wives of 4th Shia Imam belonged to Sindh and she was mother of Zayd ibn Ali. Similar reference has also been inferred in book “Zayd Shaheed” by Abd al-Razzaq al-Hasani, published from Najaf