LessonsKarāmāt al-Awliyāʾ: Extraordinary Gifts and Their EvidenceQuiz

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.

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Jaʿfar al-Ṭayyār and the context of a report

Karāmāt al-Awliyāʾ: Extraordinary Gifts and Their Evidence

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.