The year and place of birth are not known from reliable sources.
Jumana bint Ali
PER-000057
Ahl al-Bayt
Probable
Burial place unknown
Imami source baseline
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Jumana bint Ali, Peace Be Upon Her, is listed by Shaykh al-Mufid in Kitab al-Irshad among the daughters of Imam Ali born to different umm walads. Her kunya, Umm Jafar, is preserved, but reliable details about her mother's personal name, marriage, children, birth, death, and burial are not known. She must be distinguished from Imam Ali's sister Jumana bint Abi Talib and from other women who carried the same name.
The date and circumstances of death are unknown. No reliable early evidence was found for the later attribution to the fifteenth of Muharram.
The historical burial place is unknown; no present grave or shrine can be reliably attributed to her.
Biography and historical profile
Shaykh al-Mufid lists Jumana while enumerating the children of Imam Ali in Kitab al-Irshad and gives her kunya as Umm Jafar. She appears among daughters born to different umm walads. This notice is the strongest accessible evidence for her existence and Alid identity, but it does not provide her mother's personal name.
The name Jumana creates a substantial homonym risk. Jumana bint Abi Talib was Imam Ali's sister, a cousin of the Prophet, and a separate Companion. Jumana bint al-Musayyab was another woman associated with the household of Abd Allah ibn Jafar. The person in this profile is only Jumana bint Ali, whose preserved kunya is Umm Jafar.
The accessible early notice gives no reliable information about her marriage, children, education, hadith transmission, journeys, presence at Karbala, or public role. A son named Jafar is not inferred merely from the kunya Umm Jafar, because a kunya is not always proof of a biological child. The blank protected spouse and relationship fields were therefore left unchanged.
Her birth and death years, circumstances of death, and historical burial place are unknown. Later devotional and internet traditions commemorate her death or martyrdom on the fifteenth of Muharram, but no reliable early source for that date was found. The profile therefore preserves her dignity and Alid identity without inventing life events, martyrdom, or a grave.
The name Jumana creates a substantial homonym risk. Jumana bint Abi Talib was Imam Ali's sister, a cousin of the Prophet, and a separate Companion. Jumana bint al-Musayyab was another woman associated with the household of Abd Allah ibn Jafar. The person in this profile is only Jumana bint Ali, whose preserved kunya is Umm Jafar.
The accessible early notice gives no reliable information about her marriage, children, education, hadith transmission, journeys, presence at Karbala, or public role. A son named Jafar is not inferred merely from the kunya Umm Jafar, because a kunya is not always proof of a biological child. The blank protected spouse and relationship fields were therefore left unchanged.
Her birth and death years, circumstances of death, and historical burial place are unknown. Later devotional and internet traditions commemorate her death or martyrdom on the fifteenth of Muharram, but no reliable early source for that date was found. The profile therefore preserves her dignity and Alid identity without inventing life events, martyrdom, or a grave.
Historical importance and legacy
Jumana bint Ali's importance lies not in a recoverable long biography but in her preserved name and kunya within Imam Ali's extended family map. The brief notice in al-Irshad reminds historians that many women of the family survive in genealogical lists even when their individual life histories have been lost.
Her profile is also an example of source discipline. Distinguishing Jumana bint Ali from Jumana bint Abi Talib and Jumana bint al-Musayyab, and limiting unsupported later claims about death, martyrdom, or burial, protects Ahl al-Bayt history from accidental legendary expansion.
Her profile is also an example of source discipline. Distinguishing Jumana bint Ali from Jumana bint Abi Talib and Jumana bint al-Musayyab, and limiting unsupported later claims about death, martyrdom, or burial, protects Ahl al-Bayt history from accidental legendary expansion.
Family relationships
👪 Parents
Father
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib
Probable
Sources
Kitab al-Irshad | Shaykh al-Mufid | Vol. 1, pp. 354-355, chapter on the children of Imam Ali | https://ar.lib.eshia.ir/27035/1/354 and https://ar.lib.eshia.ir/27035/1/355 | lists Jumana among Imam Ali's daughters, gives the kunya Umm Jafar, and places the group among children of different umm waladsAl-Muhaddithun min Al Abi Talib | Sayyid Mahdi al-Raja'i al-Musawi | Vol. 3, p. 488, entry 650 | https://najafdesertlibrary.com/book/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A2%D9%84-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85/v/3/p/488 | modern biographical index confirming the al-Irshad identification, kunya Umm Jafar, and umm-walad maternal classification
Maqatil al-Talibiyyin | Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | p. 118 in the accessed digital edition | https://shamela.ws/book/12404/118 | distinguishes Jumana bint al-Musayyab, mother of Awn ibn Abd Allah ibn Jafar, from Jumana bint Ali
Nasab Quraysh | Musab al-Zubayri | p. 38 in the accessed digital edition | https://shamela.ws/book/2922/38 | distinguishes Jumana bint Abi Talib, Imam Ali's sister, from Jumana bint Ali
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