AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Ayatollah Yousef Saanei, has passed away at the age of 83 after being hospitalized at a Hospital in the holy city of Qom.
According to this official, Ayatollah Saanei was admitted to Nekouei Hospital of Qom due to a fracture of his hand and pelvis.
“As the Ayatollah cared very much about the health of the people in such days, no funeral ceremony will be held due to the coronavirus pandemic,” added this source.
Ayatollah Saanei was born in 1937 in the village of Nikabad southwest of Isfahan.
He completed his preliminary studies in 1951, whereupon he went to Qom to continue his studies. While at Qom he was a student of the leading theologians of his day, among them Mohammad Mohaghegh Damad, Abbas Ali Shahroudi, Mohammad Ali Araki, and Ayatollah Borujerdi.
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