and he had already summoned his bishops, whereupon he ordered them and they laid their codices all around him.

Jaʿfar replied, “Yes,” and recited to them the opening passage of Sūrah Kāf-Hā-Yā-ʿAyn-Ṣād (Sūrah Maryam).

By Allah, the Negus wept until his beard was wet, and his bishops wept until they drenched their codices. Then he said, “These words come from the very lantern from which Moses brought light. Go in safety. By Allah, I will never hand them back to you, nor will I give you the satisfaction of so much as a blink of the eye.”

The two envoys left his presence, and ʿAmr said, “Tomorrow I shall bring him something that will uproot them completely.” He then told the king what the Muslims say about Jesus (1).

Shabāb said: ʿAlī, Jaʿfar, and ʿAqīl were all sons of Fāṭimah bint Asad ibn Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf.

Al-Wāqidī said: Jaʿfar migrated to Abyssinia with his wife Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays, and there she bore him ʿAbd Allāh, ʿAwn, and Muḥammad (2).

Ibn Isḥāq said: Jaʿfar accepted Islam after thirty-one people had already done so (3).

Ismāʿīl ibn Uways related—my father narrated to us from al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd—that ʿAlī was the first male to accept Islam, then Zayd, then Jaʿfar, while Abū Bakr was the fourth or the fifth.

Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir said: On the Day of Badr the Messenger of Allah ﷺ allotted to Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib his share of the spoils and his reward.

Multiple chains report that when Jaʿfar arrived, the Prophet ﷺ said, “My delight at Jaʿfar’s arrival is greater than my delight at the conquest of Khaybar.” (4)