The ceremony will begin at 9 am local time at Imam Hassan Askari Mosque, from where the body of the prominent religious authority will be carried toward the holy shrine of Hazrat Fatima Masumeh (SA).
Ayatollah Shubairi Zanjani will be laid to rest near the shrine of the revered descendant of the Prophet’s Household.
Three days of public mourning have been declared in Qom Province following the passing of the prominent scholar.
Born in 1928, Seyed Mousa Shubairi Zanjani was an Iranian jurist and one of the Shiite religious authorities recognized by the Society of Seminary Scholars of Qom.
After completing his primary education, Shubairi began studying religious sciences, completing preliminary studies, Arabic literature and the intermediate-level seminary curriculum. He began his seminary studies in Qom in 1938 and later traveled to Najaf twice after 1953 to further his religious education.
Over more than six decades of teaching jurisprudence and Islamic sciences, Ayatollah Shubairi trained numerous students, including Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei.