ʿAbdallāh b. Jaʿfar b. Abī Ṭālib - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali
Leiden
Brill
(558 words)
ʿAbdallāh b. Jaʿfar b. Abī Ṭālib (d. between 80/699-700 and 90/708-9) was a son of the famous Jaʿfar (d. 8/629), who was the older brother by ten years of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and a hero in nascent Islam. According to the tradition of the Prophet, ʿAbdallāh's father was also called Jaʿfar "with the two wings" ( dhū l-janāḥayn ) or Jaʿfar "the flying" ( al-ṭayyār ), because, according to a Prophetic ḥadīth , in paradise Jaʿfar would have two wings in place of his two hands (