Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan

Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan, the second king of the Banu Abd al-Wad, who succeeded his father Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan over Tlemcen ¹.

Ibn Khaldun reports that his father died at the end of Dhu al-Qa'da in the year 682 AH, while returning from Tenes. Uthman met him at Sik, and carried him to Tlemcen without announcing his death. The common people and the notables pledged allegiance to him, and he wrote to the Hafsid caliph in Tunis, who confirmed him in his office ¹.

Ibn Khaldun transmits from his teacher al-Ayyili, from Sultan Abu Hammu Musa, that his father had instructed him not to meet the Banu Marin in the open, and to take refuge behind the walls. Yusuf ibn Ya'qub besieged Tlemcen in the year 698 AH. The amir Abu Zakariyya sent him his armies, and the defeat was inflicted on the army of the Almohads at the Mountain of al-Zab, in the battle of Marsa al-Ru'us. Uthman erased the name of the Hafsid caliph from the pulpits of Tlemcen ².

The book reports that his kingdom extended between Tlemcen and Bejaia. The available source gives pages 1854 to 1856 only; his year of death needs an additional source.