Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Refugees, migrants and diaspora
Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Son of Ja'far ibn Abi Talib and Asma' bint Umays, born in the land of Abyssinia. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Tribe
He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Hashim 1
Connections
- Member of
- Banu Hashim
- Child of
- Ja'far ibn Abi Talib· Asma' bint Umays
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
- Spouse of
- Umm Kulthum bint Ali
- Mentioned in
- Muwatta 1150
People and things also explored
Ali ibn Abi Talib· Ja'far ibn Abi Talib· Asma' bint Umays· Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib· The second migration to Abyssinia· Ja'far ibn Abi Talib comes before the Prophet at Khaybar· Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib· Fatima bint Muhammad
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/3
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/11
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
- Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 1 — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi
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islam.museum contributors. “Abdullah ibn Ja'far”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abdullah-ibn-jafar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.