He was also the brother of the judge Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī al-Ashraf.
He died in Ramadan of the year 646 AH and was buried in his family’s plot in al-Qarāfah.
108 – The Lord of Yemen, al-Manṣūr ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Rasūl ibn Hārūn*
He was the sultan, King al-Manṣūr, Nūr al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Rasūl ibn Hārūn ibn Abī al-Fatḥ.
It was said that he was descended from Jabalah ibn al-Ayham al-Ghassānī.
He seized power in Zabīd; numerous wars and campaigns ensued, and he entrenched his rule. He was courageous, politically astute, generous, and imposing, and he owned about a thousand mamluks.
Al-Kāmil had dispatched an army from Egypt, but al-Manṣūr advanced against them and they fled before him.
Others report that he had written separate letters to the commanders of that army; their vanguard, Jaghriel, captured the correspondence, grew fearful, and two emirs—Fayrūz and Ibn Burṭās—defected to al-Manṣūr.
Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Bāqī related to me that al-Manṣūr’s mamluks killed him in 648 AH (1), installed his nephew Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Ḥasan as sultan, and conferred upon him the title