ʿAbdallāh b. Maymūn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Daftary, Farhad
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Brill
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ʿAbdallāh b. Maymūn (d. second half of the second/eighth century) was a companion of Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (d. 148/765), and numerous ḥadīth s of this Imām are reported on his authority, in the canonical collections of Imāmī ḥadīth s (Ivanow, Alleged founder , 11-60). ʿAbdallāh's father, Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ al-Makkī, a mawlā of the Banū Makhzūm and a resident of Mecca, was a disciple of the Imām Muḥammad al-Bāqir (d. c.114/732) and transmitted a few ḥadīth s from him. ʿAbdallāh and his father