Bayt Hadir ( ar, بيت حاضر ) is a village in
Sanhan District
Sanhan and Bani Bahlul District ( ar, مديرية سنحان وبني بهلول, Sanḥān and Bani Bahlul) is a district of the Sana'a Governorate, Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is ...
of
Sanaa Governorate,
Yemen
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.
It is located 13 km east-southeast of
Sanaa
Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, is the capital and largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sanaa Governorate. The city is not part of the Gover ...
.
History
Bayt Hadir was the site of a battle in April or May of 902 (290
AH), between
al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya, the first
Imam of Yemen
The Imams of Yemen, later also titled the Kings of Yemen, were religiously consecrated leaders belonging to the Zaidiyyah branch of Shia Islam. They established a blend of religious and temporal-political rule in parts of Yemen from 897. Their i ...
, and the
Yu'firid
The Yuʿfirids ( ar, بنو يعفر, Banū Yuʿfir) were an Islamic Hemyariite dynasty that held power in the highlands of Yemen from 847 to 997. The name of the family is often incorrectly rendered as "Yafurids". They nominally acknowledged the ...
-aligned
Al Tarif, led by
Ibrahim ibn Khalaf.
Al-Hadi had originally set up a camp at the village of
Subul, but after he learned that Ibn Khalaf was encamped at nearby
Bayt ʽUqab, he became concerned that his position was not secure, so he relocated to Bayt Hadir.
The battle took place in two stages, with the Al Tarif defeated both times and forced to retreat.
The ''
Ghayat al-amani'' of
Yahya ibn al-Husayn also describes another battle that took place at Bayt Hadir much later, in 1393 (795 AH). It is also the find site of an ancient
Hebrew
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inscription.
References
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Villages in Sanaa Governorate