Dr. Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi was born on December 14, 1960, into a clerical family in the Noghan neighborhood of Mashhad. His father was Hujjat al-Islam Sayyid Haji Rais al-Sadati, and his mother was Sayyidah Esmat Khodadad Husayni, a descendant of the Husayni sayyids. His lineage on both sides traces back to Imam Sajjad (a). Sayyid Ebrahim lost his father when he was five years old. He completed his primary formal education and preliminary seminary courses in Mashhad. Then, in 1975, at the age of fifteen, he went to the Islamic Seminary of Qom, specifically the Ayatollah Boroujerdi School, to continue his studies.