Al-Musawi

Al-Musawi (, ) is a surname that presumably indicates a person comes from a prestigious and highly respected family with a transnational identity descending from Muhammad through Al Imam Musa al-Kadhim ibn Jafar as Sadiq (7th Shi'a Imam).
Members of this family are referred to by the anglicised version of their name as "Hashemites". They are usually given the honorific title Sayyid before their first name. The literal translation of the Arabic word Sayyid is Sir in English. Though no written records or genetics studies done on this family, verbal history claims that the name implies that this person is a direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad: The seventh grandson of the prophet Musa al-Kadhim. Also some Mūsawis take the last name of Kazmi. Many Mūsawis migrated from Mecca and Madina Saudi Arabia to a small village that their ancestor Musa Al-Kadhim built in Baghdad Iraq. Large members of the family are located in Iraq, and they are also located in other countries such as Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries, but they have now spread to many Western countries.
The Al Musawi family is an influential Arabian family because they are related to the Prophet Mohammed. They are a directly descended from the Musa Al-Kadhim who is the son of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq son of Imam Muhammad Al-Baqir son of Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin son of Imam Hussain son of Imam Ali Bin Abi Talib and the son of Fatimah the daughter of the Muhammad. Members of the Al-Mūsawi family are called with the title Sayed literally means "Mister" or "Sir". As an honorific title, it denotes males accepted as the direct descendants of the Muhammad. Members are mainly Shi'a muslims found in Iraq, Iran and other places around the world
The roots of the Al-Mūsawi family comes from the Head tribe of Banu Hashim, a clan of Quraish, which makes them Adnani Arabs or Northern Arabs who are originated from Ibrahim through his son Ishmael in Mesopotamia, now Iraq, in the ancient city of Ur, near Nasariyah, in Southern Iraq. 