Badhan (last Persian governor of Yemen)

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Era: Pre-Islamic Arabia
Region: Arabia
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Overview

Badhan: the last Persian governor over Yemen; he embraced Islam in 638 CE, and Persian rule over the land of Yemen ended with his Islam.

Life

Kisra made Yemen a Persian governorship after the assassination of Ma'dikarib, and Persian governors succeeded one another over it until the last of them, Badhan ¹.

Badhan embraced Islam in 638 CE, and with his Islam Persian rule over the land of Yemen ended ¹.

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Badhan was Yemen's last Persian governor; he entered Islam, and sixty years of Persian rule ended with him.

Connections

Ruler of: Yemen
Participated in: Liberation and Persian Rule of Yemen

People and things also explored

Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan (Maʾdikarib)Liberation and Persian Rule of Yemen Yemen The Second Abyssinian Occupation of Yemen Abraha Aryat (Abraha’s predecessor in Yemen)Dhu Nuwas (Yusuf Asʾar Yathʾar)The Sasanian Empire

Sources

al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

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islam.museum contributors. “Badhan (last Persian governor of Yemen)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/badhan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.

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Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan (Maʾdikarib)

The Himyarite noble who led Yemen’s liberation from Abyssinian rule with Persian help in 575 CE and was made king; his assassination by his own Abyssinian bodyguard ended the royal house of Dhu Yazan and opened direct Persian rule.