Abu Hashim Muhammad ibn Ja'far

Abū Hāshim Muḥammad ibn Ja‘far أبو هاشم محمد بن جعفر
Emir of Mecca
Reign	1063 – 1094
Successor	Qasim
Died	1094
House	Hashimids
Father	Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah

Abū Hāshim Muḥammad ibn Ja‘far al-Ḥasanī al-‘Alawī (Arabic: أبو هاشم محمد بن جعفر الحسني العلوي; d. 1094/1095) was the first Emir of Mecca from the sharifian dynasty of the Hawashim. He was appointed Emir by Ali al-Sulayhi in 455 AH (1063) and died in 487 AH (1094) over the age of 70. During his reign, he switched his allegiance multiple times between the Fatimids and the Abbasids. Ibn al-Athir writes, "There was nothing about him that was praiseworthy." Al-Dhahabi writes, "He was unjust, lacking in goodness." He was succeeded by his son Qasim.^[1]

Ancestry

He was Abu Hashim Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Hashim Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Tha'ir [ar] ibn Musa al-Thani [ar] ibn Abd Allah al-Shaykh al-Salih [ar] ibn Musa al-Jawn [ar] ibn Abd Allah al-Mahd ibn Hasan al-Muthanna ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali.

Sources

1. Ibn Fahd, ‘Izz al-Dīn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn ‘Umar ibn Muḥammad (1986) [composed before 1518]. Shaltūt, Fahīm Muḥammad (ed.). Ghāyat al-marām bi-akhbār salṭanat al-Balad al-Ḥarām غاية المرام بأخبار سلطنة البلد الحرام (in Arabic). Vol. 1 (1st ed.). Makkah: Jāmi‘at Umm al-Qurá, Markaz al-Baḥth al-‘Ilmī wa-Iḥyā’ al-Turāth al-Islāmī, Kullīyat al-Sharīʻah wa-al-Dirāsāt al-Islāmīyah. pp. 509–516.