—the Prophet ﷺ continued—“You resemble me both in appearance and in character.”

ʿIkrimah relates from Abū Hurayrah that he said, “No one ever put sandal to foot or mounted a riding-beast after the Messenger of Allah ﷺ who was superior to Jaʿfar. We used to call him ‘the father of the poor.’ ”

Mujālid transmits from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar: “Whenever I asked ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with him—for anything in Jaʿfar’s name, he granted it to me.”

According to Ibn ʿUmar, “On the day of Muʾtah I found on the front of Jaʿfar’s body more than forty wounds.”

When Jaʿfar returned from Abyssinia at the time of the conquest of Khaybar, it is reported that the Prophet ﷺ embraced him and said, “I do not know which gladdens me more: Jaʿfar’s arrival or the opening of Khaybar.”

Mahdī ibn Maymūn narrates, through Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Yaʿqūb, from al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿd, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar: “After the Messenger of Allah ﷺ announced Jaʿfar’s death, he came to us and said, ‘Bring me my brother’s sons.’ Our mother then brought us out—three little boys like fledglings: ʿAbd Allāh, ʿAwn, and Muḥammad.”

Biographical notice of Zayd ibn Ḥārithah:
As for Abū Usāmah Zayd ibn Ḥārithah ibn Sharāḥīl al-Kalbī, the beloved of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ