Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Abdullah a ranar 30 ga Janairu 1962 a Amman, ga Sarki Hussein da matarsa ta biyu da aka haifa a Burtaniya, Gimbiya Muna Al-Hussein (wanda aka haifa Antoinette Avril Gardiner). Shi ne mai suna na kakan kakansa, Abdullah I, wanda ya kafa Jordan ta zamani. Gidan sarautar Abdullah, Hashemites, sun yi mulkin Makka sama da shekaru 700 daga karni na 10 har sai gidan Saud ya ci Makka
a 1925<unk> kuma sun yi mulkin Jordan tun 1921. Hashemites sune tsohuwar daular mulki a duniyar musulmi. Dangane da al'adar dangi, Abdullah shine zuriyar zuriya ta 41 na 'yar Muhammadu Fatimah da mijinta, Ali, halifa na huɗu na Rashidun.