Muhammad ibn Ali al-Abbasi

محمد بن علي العباسي

Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas, head of the da'wa; in al-Baladhuri he renamed Ali's mawla Yahya 'Mihlahil' from a verse and freed him — his mawlas Munira and Umm Ubayda their fosterer received Baghdad qati'as from al-Mansur.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas, described in the entry as the one who founded the Abbasid call. Al-Baladhuri relates that he named a client of Ali, Yahya ibn Safwan, "Muhallal" because of a line of verse he recited, and then freed him. He had two freedwomen, Munira and Umm Ubayda, whom the caliph al-Mansur granted estates in Baghdad. 1

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  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abu Hashim Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya

Son of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya ibn Ali; on a journey to Syria he met Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn Abbas and said, 'Cousin, I hold a knowledge I wish to cast to you — reveal it to no one: this affair the people hope for is among you.' 'I already know it,' he replied — 'let no one hear it from you.' This report is the root of the claimed bequest of the imamate from the Alids to the Abbasids.