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Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din

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Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din (reigned 1488 - 1518) was a sultan of Adal.

Sultan Muhammad attmpted to remain at peace with the Emperor of Ethiopia Na'od, but his efforts were foiled by the frequent reaids of Mahfuz. He was prsent with Imam Mahfuz when Emperor Lebna Dengel attacked and destroyed the Imam's army in Dawaro in 1516.

Muhammad was murdered upon his return from an expedition against Ethiopia a few years after. He was succeeded as Sultan of Adal by al-Jarad Abun ibn Adash, who was not a member of the Walashma dynasty.1

Notes

  1. J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), pp. 82-84.

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