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As-Saffah
أبو العباس السفاح ar ابوالعباس عبدالله سفاح fa
First Abbasid
- Child of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Abbasi and Rayta bint Obaidullah Al Harithi
- Married to Umm Salamah al-Makhzumiyah
- Dated 722 CE – 9 June 754 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 1
Family
The family of As-Saffah
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 10
Family 10
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Muhammad ibn Ali al-Abbasi Father of the two first 'Abbâsid caliphs (c.680–743) - child of (mother) Rayta bint Obaidullah Al Harithi
- of the house Abbasids Muslim Hijaz dynasty
- parent of (child) Muhammad bin Abu Al-Abbas Al-Saffah
- parent of (child) Rayta bint al-Saffah 8th-century Arab princess and First wife of Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi
- sibling of Al-Abbàs ibn Muhàmmad
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sibling of Al-Mansur second Abbasid Caliph (714-775) -
sibling of Ibrahim al-Imam 8th-century leader of the Abbasid family - sibling of Yahya ibn Muhammad al-Abbasi
- married to Umm Salamah al-Makhzumiyah wife of Abbasid caliph Abul-‘Abbas as-Saffah
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
12 statements on this record
- 12 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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