{
 "id": "polity/najahid-dynasty",
 "class": "polity",
 "slug": "najahid-dynasty",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بنو نجاح بزبيد",
  "en": "Najahid dynasty of Zabid"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بنو نجاح بزبيد موالي بني زياد؛ لما استولى الصليحي على زبيد كان لنجاح ثلاثة من الولد معارك وسعيد وجياش، فلحق سعيد وجياش بجزيرة دهلك يتعلمان القرآن والآداب، ثم بيتا علي الصليحي في اللجم وهو متوجه إلى مكة فانتقض عسكره وتولى قتله جياش بيده سنة 473هـ، ورحلوا إلى زبيد فاستولوا عليها وبقي ملكهم عليها يخطبون للعباسيين والصليحيون يخطبون للعبيديين، وكان جياش موصوفاً بالعدل هلك على رأس المائة الخامسة، ثم ولي ابنه الفاتك إلى أن انقرض أمر آل نجاح وملك زبيد علي بن مهدي الخارجي سنة 554هـ.",
  "en": "Banu Najah of Zabid, mawali of Banu Ziyad; when al-Sulayhi took Zabid, Najah's sons Mu'arik, Sa'id and Jayyash scattered — Sa'id and Jayyash fleeing to Dahlak island to learn Qur'an and adab — until they ambushed Ali al-Sulayhi by night in the saddle-lines on his march to Mecca and Jayyash killed him with his own hand in 473; they took Zabid, ruling under the Abbasid khutba against the Sulayhids' Ubaydi one, Jayyash famed for justice until his death at the turn of the fifth century, his son al-Fatik succeeding until Ali ibn Mahdi the Khariji ended the house in 554."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/buyid-seljuk-fatimid-era",
  "period/crusades-ayyubid-mamluk"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "dynasty",
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ابن خلدون، العبر — دولة بني نجاح بزبيد موالي بني زياد، ص1038-1039 (طبعة هيليوبوليس)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "model": "swe-2-high",
   "run": "lib-ibar-east-30"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); extracted from Ibn Khaldun al-Ibar via Apple Vision OCR"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بنو نجاح بزبيد موالي بني زياد. استولوا على زبيد بعد مقتل الصليحي سنة 473هـ، وانتهى أمرهم لما ملكها علي بن مهدي سنة 554هـ. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1038-1039}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأبناء الثلاثة",
     "markdown": "لما استولى الصليحي على زبيد كان لنجاح ثلاثة أولاد: معارك وسعيد وجياش. لحق سعيد وجياش بجزيرة دهلك يتعلمان القرآن والآداب. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1038-1039}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مقتل الصليحي",
     "markdown": "بيّتا علي الصليحي في اللجم وهو متوجه إلى مكة، فانتقض عسكره، وتولى جياش قتله بيده سنة 473هـ. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1038-1039}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم",
     "markdown": "رحلوا إلى زبيد فاستولوا عليها. كانوا يخطبون للعباسيين، والصليحيون يخطبون للعبيديين. ويصف ابن خلدون جياشاً بالعدل، وقد هلك على رأس المائة الخامسة، ثم ولي ابنه الفاتك. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1038-1039}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النهاية",
     "markdown": "انقرض أمر آل نجاح، وملك زبيد علي بن مهدي الخارجي سنة 554هـ. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1038-1039}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "polity/najahid-dynasty",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Najahids of Zabid were clients of the Banu Ziyad. They took Zabid after the killing of al-Sulayhi in 473 AH, and their affair ended when Ali ibn Mahdi took it in 554 AH. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1038-1039}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The three sons",
     "markdown": "When al-Sulayhi took Zabid, Najah had three sons: Ma'arik, Sa'id and Jayyash. Sa'id and Jayyash went to the island of Dahlak to study the Qur'an and literature. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1038-1039}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The killing of al-Sulayhi",
     "markdown": "Ali had al-Sulayhi ambushed at al-Lujum while he was on his way to Mecca, his army broke, and Jayyash himself killed him in 473 AH. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1038-1039}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Rule",
     "markdown": "They went to Zabid and took it. They gave the khutba for the Abbasids, while the Sulayhids gave it for the Fatimids. Ibn Khaldun describes Jayyash as just. He died at the start of the fifth century AH, and his son al-Fatik succeeded him. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1038-1039}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The end",
     "markdown": "The line of the Najahids died out, and Ali ibn Mahdi al-Kharijī took Zabid in 554 AH. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1038-1039}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "polity/najahid-dynasty",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/jayyash-ibn-najah",
   "type": "ruled_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "ثالث ملوك بني نجاح بزبيد وقاتل علي الصليحي",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/jayyash-ibn-najah"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}