Editing Abd Allah ibn Ali

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 | Full name = Abd Allah ibn Ali
 | Companion of = [[Hussain ibn Ali|Imam al-Hussain]]
 | Kunya =Abu Muhammad 
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 | Lineage = Banu Hashim
 | Well known relatives =[[Umm al-Banin]] (mother), [[Abbas B. Ali B. Abu Taleb|Abbas b. Ali]] (brother) 
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 | Place of Residence = [[Kufa]]
 | Death/martyrdom=  61/680
 | Cause of Death/martyrdom = [[Martyrdom]] in the Battle of Karbala
 | Burial place = [[Karbala]], [[Iraq]]
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 | Activities = Participating in the [[Battle of Karbala]]
|Native name=عبد الله بن علی بن أبی طالب}}'''Abd Allah ibn Ali''' one of the [[Martyrdom|martyrs]] of [[Karbala]], was the son of [[Ali ibn Abi Talib|Imam Ali]] and [[Ummul Banin]] and a brother of [[Abbas B. Ali B. Abu Taleb|Abbas]]. 

==His Life==
The name of Abd Allah ibn Ali has also been mentioned in historical books as Abd Allah al-Akbar and Abd Allah al-Asghar with the teknonym of Abu Muhammad. The name of his mother was Umm al-Banin bt. Hazam.

According to Abu l-Faraj, Abd Allah was martyred at the age of 25; however, some sources have said that he was 8 years younger than his brother Abbas (who was martyred at the age of 34), but he was older than his other brothers. He lived with his father for 6 years and there is no more information about him before the Battle of [[Ashura]].

==Martyrdom==
There is no doubt about his presence in [[Karbala]] and his [[martyrdom]], as Ibn Sa'd, Ibn Qutayba, al-Tabari, Abu l-Faraj, al-Khwarazmi, al-Shaykh al-Tusi and others have counted him among the martyrs.<ref>Ibn Saʿd, ''al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā'', vol. 3, p. 14; Dīnawarī, ''al-Maʿārif'', p. 88; Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī'', vol. 5, p. 153; Iṣfahānī, ''Maqātil al-ṭālibīyyīn'', p. 88; Ṭūsī, ''al-Rijāl'', p. 86.</ref>

Some mentioned him the first martyr among his brothers. Also, there are reports mentioning that he was martyred after his brother Ja'far.<ref>Ibn Aʿtham, ''Kitāb al-Futūḥ'', vol. 5, p. 207; Iṣfahānī, ''Maqātil al-ṭālibīyyīn'', p. 88; Khwārizmī, ''Maqtal al-Ḥusayn'', vol. 2, p. 109.</ref>

About the way he was martyred, it is reported that when the companions of Imam al-Hussain and some of the [[Ahl Al-Bayt|Ahl al-Bayt]] were martyred, [[Abbas B. Ali B. Abu Taleb|Abbas]] called Abd Allah and told him: "Go to the battlefield, so that I see your courage and take the pain of [losing] you a cause for my reward, because you do not have any children." 

Abd Allah accepted and while he was making a battle cry, attacked the enemy.<ref>Ibn Aʿtham, ''Kitāb al-Futūḥ'', vol. 5, p. 114; Ibn Shahrāshūb, ''Manāqib'', vol. 4, p. 116.</ref> In the battle with the army of [[Omar Ibn Sa’d|Umar b. Sa'd]], Abd Allah b. Ali killed some of them <ref>Maḥallātī, ''Fursān al-hayjāʾ'', vol. 5, p. 250.</ref>and was finally martyred.

Some sources have mentioned [[Hani b. Thubayt|Hani b. Thubayt al-Hadrami]] as the murderer of Abd Allah ibn Ali. They said that he struck Abd Allah on the head and martyred him.<ref>Balādhurī, ''Ansāb al-ashrāf'', vol. 3, p. 407; Dīnawarī, ''al-Akhbār al-ṭiwāl'', p. 257; Iṣfahānī, ''Maqātil al-ṭālibīyyīn'', p. 88; Mufīd, ''al-Irshād'', vol. 2, p. 109; Ṭa</ref> But, another report, mentions [[Khawli b. Yazid al-Asbahi|Khawli b. Yazid]] as the murderer of Abd Allah, who shot an arrow at Abd Allah, and then, a man from Banu Tamim from Aban b. Daram martyred him.<ref>Shajarī, ''al-Amālī al-khamīsīya'', vol. 1, p. 117; Maḥallī, ''al-Ḥadāʾiq al-wardīyya'', vol. 1, p. 120</ref> They have mentioned the age of Abd Allah 25 years old upon his martyrdom. <ref>Iṣfahānī, ''Maqātil al-ṭālibīyyīn'', p. 88; Ṭabrisī, ''Iʿlām al-warā'', vol. 1, p. 395.</ref>

Abu l-Faraj believes that Abd Allah had no children<ref>Iṣfahānī, ''Maqātil al-ṭālibīyyīn'', p. 88.</ref>. But, al-Tabari mentioned a person called Abbas b. Hasan b. Abd Allah b. Ali<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh-i Ṭabarī'', vol. 8, p. 235.</ref>  who was a grandson of Abd Allah ibn Ali.

The name of Abd Allah ibn Ali has been mentioned in the [[Ziarat al-Nahiya al-Muqaddasa]] and he has been praised.

==Sources==

*[https://en.wikishia.net/view/%27Abd_Allah_b._al-Imam_%27Ali_(a) WikiShia, An online encyclopedia of the school of Ahl al-Bayt]
*[http://alhassanain.org/Nafasul%20Mahmum%3B%20Relating%20to%20the%20heart%20rending%20tragedy%20of%20Karbala/Nafasul_Mahmum%3B_Relating_to_the_heart_rending_tragedy_of_Karbala_html/nafasul_mahmum.htm Shaykh 'Abbas Qummi , Nafasul Mahmum; Relating to the heart rending tragedy of Karbala]

==References==
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[[Category:Martyrs of Karbala]]
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