Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah

Sheikh Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (Arabic: الشيخ حمد المبارك الصباح; 1894 - May 31, 1938) was one of the sons of Mubarak Al-Sabah, the seventh ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait, and his wife Hessa bint Falah bin Rakan Al-Hithlain. He is the progenitor of the Al-Hamad branch of the Al-Sabah ruling family of Kuwait. Sheikh Hamad was one of three candidates nominated by the notables of Kuwait to potentially succeed Sheikh Salem Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. It is said that he was the favorite child of his father. At his wedding, his father hosted a celebration in Kuwait that was unprecedented in its grandeur during that era.^[1][2][3][4] In 2024, his grandson Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah became the first crown prince among his descendants.

Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah
Born	1894
Died	31 May 1938(1938-05-31) (aged 44)
House	Sabah
Father	Mubarak I
Mother	Hessa bint Falah bin Rakan Al-Hithlain

Family tree

On May 17, 1908, Sheikh Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah married Sheikha Hessa Sabah Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah. They had several children:^[1][4]

• Sheikh Mubarak, father of Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, a former Prime Minister of Kuwait.
• Sheikha Sharifa, who married Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, a former Emir of Kuwait.
• Sheikh Khaled, father of Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, current Crown Prince of Kuwait, and of Mohammad Al Khalid Al Sabah and Ahmad Al Khalid Al Sabah, former ministers of defence and interior.
• Sheikh Fahad.
• Sheikha Naseema, who married Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, the first independent Emir of Kuwait.
• Sheikha Nashmiya.

References

1. "حمد المبارك.. في ذكراه الثانية والسبعين". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
2. Kuwait Political Agency: Arabic Documents 1899-1949 (1 ed.). Archive Editions. 1994.
3. Crystal, Jill (1999). Oil and politics in the Gulf: rulers and merchants in Kuwait and Qatar. Cambridge Middle East library (Updated ed., transferred to digital repr ed.). Cambridge: Univ. Press. pp. 42, 43, 44. ISBN 978-0-521-46635-6.
4. Rush, A. de L. (1987). Al-Sabah: genealogy and history of Kuwait's ruling family, 1752-1986. Middle East cultures series. London; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Ithaca Press. ISBN 978-0-86372-081-9.