Sadr met Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi and supreme commander of the armed forces, at al-Shati palace in the capital, according to the National, a UAE website.
Also present were Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, UAE minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation, Ali Mohamed Hammad al-Shamsi, deputy secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council, and Mohammed al-Mazrouei, undersecretary of the crown prince court of Abu Dhabi, the National said.
During his visit, Sadr is expected to meet with UAE officials to discuss regional developments as well as the latest efforts in the fight against the ISIS group on the ground, according to al-Arabiya.
It will be the second such trip in as many months for Sadr. He visited Saudi Arabia at the end of July.
The Emirati government was to send a special plane to fly Sadr to the UAE and return him to Iraq, according to a statement on the cleric's website.
Sadr also announced a Saudi decision to donate $10m to help Iraqis displaced by the war with ISIS in Iraq, to be paid to the Iraqi government.
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