He is the one who founded the city of Bijaya (1), which he called an-Nasiriyya, and his reign lasted twenty-seven years.
He died in 481 AH.
He subdued his cousin Bulukkin ibn Muhammad ibn Hammad, dealt treacherously with him, and took the kingship from him after Bulukkin had ruled for five years, succeeding King Muhsin ibn al-Qaʾid ibn Hammad. Muhsin’s rule lasted three years, after which he died. Before him came his father al-Qaʾid, who had remained on the throne for twenty-seven years, having acceded to power after his own father. King Hammad, the father of al-Qaʾid, died in 419 AH (2).
Hammad fought his nephew Badis and Badis’s son al-Muʿizz ibn Badis, and a number of engagements took place between them. The realm remained with the house of Hammad until ʿAbd al-Muʾmin seized Bijaya (3) from them in 547 AH. Their last ruler was King Yahya ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Mansur, son of the lord of Bijaya, al-Nasir (4).
- al-ʿĀṣimī, ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī — the shaykh, the scholar, the truthful, the man of letters, and in his day the chief hadith authority of Baghdad, Abū