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From his base in the mountains adjoining the northern Tihamah, their leader Ali bin Mahdi attacked the lowland. In 1157 he besieged the Najahid capital Zabid. The population, driven to desperation, sought assistance from al-Mutawakkil Ahmad and promised to acknowledge him as their prince. Actually the imam entered Zabid with a force.
Ahmad bin Yahya was the oldest son of Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, of the Hamid al-Din branch of the al-Qasimi dynasty.Yahya had been imam of the Zaidi sect of Shia Islam practiced by tribes in northern Yemen, from 1904, when he succeeded his father.
al-Hadi Yahya bin Muhsin 1217–1239; al-Mahdi Ahmad bin al-Husayn 1248–1258; al-Hasan bin Wahhas 1258–1260, d. 1285; Yahya bin Muhammad as-Siraji 1261–1262, d. 1296; al-Mansur al-Hasan bin Badr ad-Din 1262–1271 (son of a cousin of al-Hadi Yahya) al-Mahdi Ibrahim bin Ahmad Taj ad-Din 1272–1276, d. 1284 (nephew) al-Mutawakkil al ...
Imam Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man is the first of the four imams and the only taabi'i among them. He also had the opportunity to meet a number of the companions of the Prophet. Imam Malik ibn Anas was a sheikh of Imam Shafi'i. Imam Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i was a student of Imam Malik and a sheikh of Imam Ahmad. [2]
Abū 'Abdullah Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Abū Bakr al-Jazūli al-Simlālī (Arabic: أبو عبدالله محمد بن سليمان بن ابوبكر الجزولي السّملالي الحسني) (d. 1465AD = 870AH), often known as Imam al-Jazuli or Sheikh Jazuli, was a Moroccan Sufi Saint.
Ahmad Yahya al-Thulaya (Arabic: أحمد يحيى الثلايا; 1916 - April 13, 1955) was a Yemeni colonel who led the failed 1955 coup against Imam Ahmad bin Yahya, the absolute monarch of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.
The imam, his grandson, and two soldiers were killed; 50 bullets were said to have been found the imam's body. The leader of the ambush, Ali Nasir al-Qardaei, was from the Murad tribe, and had previously been imprisoned by the imam. [3] [4] The al-Waziris then installed their own imam, Abdullah bin Ahmad al-Wazir, to run the kingdom. His rule ...
Al-A'mash was born in Kufa in 680 (61 AH). [2] [3] He was a freedman of the Kahil clan from the Banu Assad tribe.His father had moved to Kufa from Damavand, Iran. [4]Al-A’mash died in 764 (147 AH) in Kufa, but most historians say that he died in the month of Rabi al-Awwal 765 (148 AH).