Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Malik al-Nāṣir Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl (died 1424), numbered al-Nāṣir Aḥmad I, was the eighth Rasūlid sultan of Yemen from 1400 until his death.[1][2][3] He succeeded his father, al-Ashraf Ismāʿīl I, and was succeeded by his son, al-Manṣūr ʿAbdallāh.[4]
Al-Nāṣir Aḥmad was the last successful Rasūlid, attaining military victories in Yemen and receiving diplomatic gifts from China.[4][5] The Chinese admiral Zheng He visited Aden during his fifth, sixth and seventh voyages. On the first of these, according to the anonymous Tārikh al-dawla al-Rasūliyya fī l-Yaman, an envoy from the fleet proceeded overland to meet al-Nāṣir in al-Janad in March 1419, bringing with him gifts of porcelain, musk, storax and silk woven with gold.[6]
He received the ten sons of Sa'ad ad-Din II from the Somali Coast, fleeing for the approaching Ethiopian Empire at his court, 4 of them being future Adal Sultans Sabr ad-Din III,Mansur ad-Din of Adal, Jamal ad-Din II and Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din.[7]
After al-Nāṣir's death, the dynasty declined rapidly, losing all power in 1454.[4][5][8]
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