Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Yahya
محمد بن جعفر بن يحيى
The Alid fugitive to lower Tahert — 'just and upright' among his followers, dead by poison in the Maghreb 1.
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Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Yahya ibn Abdallah ibn al-Hasan, one of the Alids. Al-Mas'udi says that he went to Egypt and was sought, so he entered the Maghrib and joined the lands of Tahart al-Sufla. A multitude gathered to him, and he appeared among them with justice and uprightness, then died there, poisoned. 1
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- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 330
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