{
 "id": "polity/rassid-dynasty",
 "class": "polity",
 "slug": "rassid-dynasty",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بنو الرسي بصعدة",
  "en": "Rassid Zaydi imamate of Sa'da"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بنو الرسي أئمة الزيدية بصعدة؛ من أعقاب القاسم الرسي بن إبراهيم طباطبا بن إسماعيل الديباج، وأول من خرج بها يحيى بن الحسين بن القاسم الرسي دعا لنفسه بصعدة وتسمى بالهادي وبويع بها، وكان مجتهداً في الأحكام الشرعية له في الفقه رأي ذكره ابن حزم، ثم ولي بعده ابنه محمد المرتضى فاضطربت ولايته، ثم أخوه الناصر أحمد فاستقام ملكه واطرد في بنيه، ولم تزل إمامتهم بصعدة مطردة حتى جاء السليمانيون من مكة لما أخرجهم الهواشم فغلبوا عليهم بصعدة وانقرضت دولتهم بها في المائة السادسة، ثم بقي إمام آل رسي في أعقابهم إلى بعد السبعمائة.",
  "en": "Banu al-Rassi, the Zaydi imams of Sa'da; from the line of al-Qasim al-Rassi ibn Ibrahim Tabataba — first to rise there was Yahya ibn al-Husayn al-Rassi, who summoned Sa'da to himself, took the laqab al-Hadi and was sworn as imam, a mujtahid in legal rulings whose fiqh Ibn Hazm saw and judged not far from the Sunni way; his son Muhammad al-Murtada's tenure faltered but his brother al-Nasir Ahmad's held, and the imamate ran unbroken in his sons until the Sulaymanids of Mecca, driven out by the Hawashim, seized Sa'da and ended the state there in the sixth century — though the Rassid claim lived on in their descendants past 700."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-fragmentation",
  "period/buyid-seljuk-fatimid-era",
  "period/crusades-ayyubid-mamluk"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "state",
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ابن خلدون، العبر — دولة بني الرسي أئمة الزيدية بصعدة، ص970-971 (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 الرسي أئمة الزيدية بصعدة، من أعقاب القاسم الرسي بن إبراهيم طباطبا بن إسماعيل الديباج. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.970-971}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "البداية",
     "markdown": "أول من خرج بها يحيى بن الحسين بن القاسم الرسي، دعا لنفسه بصعدة وتسمى بالهادي وبويع بها. ويذكر ابن خلدون أنه كان مجتهداً في الأحكام الشرعية وأن ابن حزم ذكر له رأياً في الفقه. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.970-971}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "بعده",
     "markdown": "ولي بعده ابنه محمد المرتضى فاضطربت ولايته، ثم أخوه الناصر أحمد فاستقام ملكه واطرد في بنيه. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.970-971}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النهاية",
     "markdown": "لم تزل إمامتهم بصعدة مطردة حتى جاء السليمانيون من مكة لما أخرجهم الهواشم، فغلبوا عليهم بصعدة وانقرضت دولتهم بها في المائة السادسة. وبقي إمام آل رسي في أعقابهم إلى بعد السبعمائة. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.970-971}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "polity/rassid-dynasty",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Rassids, the Zaydi imams of Sa'da, descended from al-Qasim al-Rassi ibn Ibrahim Tabataba ibn Isma'il al-Dibaj. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.970-971}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The beginning",
     "markdown": "The first to rise there was Yahya ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim al-Rassi. He called people to his allegiance at Sa'da and took the name al-Hadi, and he was given the oath there. Ibn Khaldun says that he was a jurist in legal rulings, and that Ibn Hazm reported an opinion of his on jurisprudence. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.970-971}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "After him",
     "markdown": "His son Muhammad al-Murtada succeeded him, and his rule was unsettled. Then his brother al-Nasir Ahmad, whose rule became stable and passed to his sons. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.970-971}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The end",
     "markdown": "Their imamate in Sa'da continued without interruption until the Sulaymanids came from Mecca, when the Hawashim had expelled them, and they overcame them in Sa'da, and their state died out there in the sixth century AH. The imam of the House of al-Rassi remained among their descendants until after the seventh century AH. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.970-971}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "polity/rassid-dynasty",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/al-hadi-yahya-al-rassi",
   "type": "founded_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "أول الداعين بصعدة للإمامة الزيدية",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "group/zaydiyya",
  "person/al-hadi-yahya-al-rassi"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}