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| name = Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili
| title= Ash-Shahid ath-Thani
| birth_date = 1506, [[Jbaa]], [[Lebanon]]
| death_date = 1559 
| denomination = [[Shia]]
| school_tradition = [[Twelver]]
| Maddhab = [[Ja'fari]]
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| region = [[Jabal 'Amel]], [[Damascus]], [[Cairo]], [[Jerusalem]]
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| works = ''The Beautiful Garden in Interpreting the Damscene Glitter''
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'''Zayn al-Dīn al-Juba'ī al-Ṭalluṣī al'Amilī''' ({{langx|ar|زين الدين الجبعي  الطلّوسي العاملي}}; 1506-1559), also known as '''ash-Shahīd ath-Thanī''' ({{langx|ar|الشهيد الثاني}}, ''{{Transliteration|ar|ʾash-Shahīd ath-Thānī}}'', {{lit|The Second Martyr}}) was a Twelver [[Shia Islam|Shia Muslim]] scholar.

== Early life ==
He was born ''Zayn al-Dīn bin Nur al-Dīn 'Alī bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin 'Alī bin Jamal al-Dīn bin Taqī bin Sāliḥ bin Mushrif al-'Amilī al-Shamī al-Ṭalluṣī al-Juba'ī'', in the village of [[Jbaa]], on the 13th of Shawwal, 911 AH (1506 CE). His father, Sheikh Nur al-Din 'Ali was also a scholar.

His ancestor, Sāliḥ, was a student of [[Allamah Al-Hilli|Allamah al-Hilli]].

== Career and travels ==
Thani studied under both [[Sunni]] and [[Shi'a]] scholars in [[Jabal 'Amel]], [[Damascus]], [[Cairo]], [[Jerusalem]].

In 1536, he moved to [[Egypt]], where he learned ''Usul al-Fiqh'', [[geometry]], [[Prosody (linguistics)|prosody]], [[medicine]] and [[logic]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Al-Amili |first1=Muhsin |title=A'yan al-Shi'a |date=1983 |location=Beirut |url=http://shiaonlinelibrary.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8/3642_%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%AC-%D9%A7/}}</ref>

In 1543, he traveled to [[Constantinople]] and met with Muhammad bin Muhammad bin [[Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī]], with whom he shared multiple treatises relating to several subjects, including [[mathematics]], astronomy and religion. The latter offered him the highest teaching position in a school of his choice, which was eventually the Nuriyya School of [[Baalbek]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Al-Amili |first1=Muhsin |title=A'yan al-Shi'a |date=1983 |location=Beirut |url=http://shiaonlinelibrary.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8/3642_%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%AC-%D9%A7/}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
His [[Masterpiece|Magnum opus]] is the first commentary of ''The Damascene Glitter'' by [[Shahid Awwal]] called ''The Beautiful Garden in Interpreting the Damscene Glitter'' (Arabic: ''ar-Rawda-l-Bahiyah fi Sharh allam'a-d-Dimashqiya''   الروضة البهيّة في شرح اللمعة الدمشقيّة ).

== See also ==
*[[Five Martyrs of Shia Islam|The Five Martyrs]]
*[[Shahid Awwal]]
*[[Shahid Thani]]
*[[Shahid Salis]]
*[[Shahid Rabay]]
*[[Shahid Khamis]]

==References==
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== External links ==
*{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20010418233930/http://www.al-shia.com/html/ara/books/rawda/fehrest.html Page title]}}

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