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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Role of Aishah in the History of Islam (volume 2) The Ill-omened Results of the Battle of Al-jamal In the battle of al-Jamal more than thirty thousand Muslims were killed. al-Ya'qubi The ill-omened results of the battle of al-Jamal and the unpleasant after effects, which came by gradually, are really astonishing. 145. Translation of Futuh of Ibn A'tham 2/339-340.

'Abd Allah was the son of Ja'far ibn Abi Talib and nephew of 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, of the Quraysh tribe and Banu Hashim house. His mother was Asma', daughter of 'Umays al- Khath'ami. His parents emigrated from Mecca to Abyssinia at the beginning of the Prophet's ordainment, where 'Abd Allah was born. He was the first Muslim to be born in Abyssinia and later on her returned with his father Ja'far Tayyar to Medina.

When his father died Abu Bakr married 'Abd Allah's mother by whom Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr was born. Thus 'Abd Allah ibn Ja'far became the half-brother of Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr on his mother's side, in the same way that Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr became brother with 'A'ishah on the father's side. 'Abd Allah was ten years old when the Prophet departed this world. He was a benevolent and patient man and a famous generous Arab.

It is said that he died at the age of ninety in the year eighty or eighty-four or eighty-five of the Hijrah. Aban ibn 'Uthman's son, who was governor of Medina, performed his burial prayer. (Usd al-ghabah 3/133-135, al-Isti'ab 422, Biography No. 1466) 147. al-'Iqd al-farid 4/328-329 (published by Li-jant at-ta'lif), Description of Nahj al-balaghah 2/82 printed Egypt, History of Ibn A'tham 182, History of al-Ya'qubi 1/213, Muruj adh-dhahab 5/197.

Historians write about it as follows: In the battle of al-Jamal the two armies shot so many arrows at one another that their supply was totally exhausted, and they pierced so many chests with their spears and killed so many men that if horses had galloped in the battlefield, their hooves would have touched nothing but the corpses of the Muslims.

A man who actually took part in that battle says: "After the battle of al-Jamal whenever I visited Dar al-Walid in Basra, a place where women wash clothes, the sound of the sticks used by them remind me of the swords and spears in that battle."148 In the previous pages we have narrated the words of historians about this battle as to how heads were severed from bodies, hands were cut and bellies were ripped.