Abū Hāshim Muḥammad ibn Ja‘far al-Ḥasanī al-‘Alawī ( ar, أبو هاشم محمد بن جعفر الحسني العلوي; d. 1094/1095) was the first

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from the

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ian dynasty of the Hawashim. He was appointed Emir by Ali al-Sulayhi in 455 AH (1063) and died in 487 AH (1094/1095) at over the age of 70. During his reign he switched his allegiance multiple times between the

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s and the

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Ibn al-Athir Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, better known as ʿAlī ʿIzz ad-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī ( ar, علي عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري) lived 1160–1233) was an Arab or Kurdish historian ...

writes, "There was nothing about him that was praiseworthy."

Al-Dhahabi Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was an Islamic historia ...

writes, "He was unjust, lacking in goodness." He was succeeded by his son

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Ancestry

He was Abu Hashim Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Hashim Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn ibn ibn ibn ibn ibn ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali.

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