THE MERITS OF’ABDULLAH B. JA’FAR (ALLAH BE PLEASED WITH HIM)(SAHIH HADITH MUSLIM)
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Chapter# 11, Book 31, Number 5960:
Abdullah b. Abu Mulaika reported that Abdullah b. Jafar said to Ibn Zubair: Do you remember (the occasion) when we three (i. e. I, you and lbn ‘Abbas) met Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and he mounted us (on his camel) but left you? He said: Yes.
Book 31, Number 5961:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Habib b. Ash-Shahid.
Book 31, Number 5962:
Abdullah b. Ja’far reported that when Allah’s Messenger (may peace be, upon him) came back from a journey, the children of his family used to accord him welcome. It was in this way that once he came back from a journey and I went to him first of all. He mounted me before him. Then there came one of the two sons of Fatima and he mounted him behind him and this is how we three entered Medina riding on a beast.
Book 31, Number 5963:
Abdullah b. Ja’a'far reported that when Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) came back from a journey he met us. Once he met me, Hasan or Husain, and he mounted one of us before him and the other one behind him until we entered Medina.
Book 31, Number 5964:
Abdullah b. Ja’far reported that one day Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) mounted me behind him and narrated to me something in secret which I would narrate to none amongst people.