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|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]].  

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]].

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>

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

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