Abdallah ibn Ali
عبد الله بن علي
Abdallah ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas, the Abbasid commander; in al-Baladhuri he stayed at Basra, and Abu al-Asad — al-Mansur's mawla — was the one who brought him into Kufa; a fugitive from al-Mansur at his brother Sulayman's in Basra, the crowd cried at his door 'Commander of the Faithful, come down, we give you bay'a' till Sulayman dispersed them.
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At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Connections
- Participated in
- The Basrans' Cry to Abdallah ibn Ali
People and things also explored
Sulayman ibn Ali al-Abbasi· Basra· The Basrans' Cry to Abdallah ibn Ali
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi
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islam.museum contributors. “Abdallah ibn Ali”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abdallah-ibn-ali-ibn-abdallah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.