Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib is known as Jaʿfar al-Ṭayyār, and reports describe wings and flight granted to him in Paradise after martyrdom.
Honor in the hereafter must be distinguished from an alleged physical flight by a living person in this world. Treating different settings as identical creates conceptual confusion.
A report's time, context and subject matter alongside its wording.