Abdullah ibn Ja'far ibn Abi Talib (RA) (c. 1–80 AH) was the son of Ja'far al-Tayyar (RA), the nephew of Ali ibn Abi Talib (RA), and among the last of…
Abdullah ibn Ja'far ibn Abi Talib (RA) (c. 1–80 AH) was the son of Ja'far al-Tayyar (RA), the nephew of Ali ibn Abi Talib (RA), and among the last of the Companions to die in Madinah. His grave lies inside the Baqi graveyard, a short walk east of Masjid al-Nabawi. Born in exile, raised near the Prophet ﷺ He was born in Abyssinia during the migration, to Ja'far ibn Abi Talib (RA) and Asma bint Umays (RA), and is counted as the first child born to the Muslims in that land. He returned to Madinah as a boy in the year of Khaybar, and grew up close enough to the Prophet ﷺ that he remembered being lifted onto his mount and seated behind him. The year his father was martyred At Mu'tah in 8 AH his father was martyred carrying the standard. The Prophet ﷺ came to the house himself, gathered the orphaned boys to him, and instructed the people of Madinah to carry the household through those days: "Prepare food for the family of Ja'far, for there has come upon them that which occupies them." Sunan Abi Dawud 3132 He then supplicated for the boy's livelihood, asking Allah to place blessing in his trade. His later wealth was understood in Madinah as the answer to that prayer. Bahr al-Jud — the sea of generosity He became one of the wealthiest men of Madinah and one of the most open-handed, so much so that he was known by the title Bahr al-Jud , the sea of generosity. What is recorded of him is consistently about giving rather than acquiring: gifts to poets, debts settled for strangers, and a table no one left empty. Wealth, in his case, is remembered only as the means by which other people were carried. Karbala and the years after He married Zaynab bint Ali (RA), and two of his sons, Awn and Muhammad, were martyred with al-Husayn (RA) at Karbala in 61 AH. He outlived them by two decades, remaining in Madinah as one of the surviving links to the Prophet's ﷺ own generation, sought out for what he had seen and heard directly. His grave He died in Madinah in 80 AH, aged around eighty, and was buried in the Baqi graveyard among the family of Abi Talib. The site today is a low, unmarked field of stones, as the whole of Baqi is, with no built structure over it.
This site is located within Jannat al-Baqi Graveyard.