Abu Tashfin I Abd al-Rahman ibn Musa

Abu Tashfin Abd al-Rahman ibn Musa ibn Abi Hammu, sultan of Tlemcen, the fifth of the kings of the Banu Abd al-Wad according to the museum's data. ¹

Ibn Khaldun relates that his father gave him companions from the Mu'alluj to serve in his upbringing, and that his father would rebuke him and compare him with his cousin Mas'ud ibn Abi Amir. His companions urged him to seize the affair. They attacked the close men of the palace at the time of the midday rest, killed the sultan, Mas'ud and Abu Sarhan, and the Banu al-Mallah viziers perished. A herald called out in Tlemcen that Abu Tashfin had avenged his father. ¹

Abu Tashfin held the affair alone after his father, Abu Hammu Musa. He then marched against Muhammad ibn Yusuf, who had rebelled against his father when he returned from the siege of Bejaia. His wars with the Almohads in the long strife over Bejaia and Tlemcen continued. ¹

This page belongs to the Zayyanid state of Tlemcen.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.) entry on Abu Tashufin I, 'Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Hammu, of the 'Abd al-Wadid dynasty, says that he was proclaimed on 23 Jumada I 718/23 July 1318 after the murder of his father Abu Hammu I. He exiled to Spain all the relatives who could claim the throne, which freed him to besiege Constantine and Bougie and to try to extend the kingdom eastwards. The Hafsids and the Marinid sultan Abu l-Hasan then seized his dominions and besieged Tlemcen in 735/1335; two years later the capital was taken by assault and the king was killed in battle. ²