Ali ibn Sulayman ibn Ali

Ali ibn Sulayman ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Abbas, of the Abbasid family. Al-Baladhuri mentions him as governor of al-Jazira and Qinnasrin. ¹

He built the city of al-Hadath from mud-brick, and it was named al-Muhammadiyya. Al-Mahdi died in 169 AH, when they had just finished building it, so it is also called al-Mahdiyya and al-Hamdiyya. The data link this with the founding of al-Hadath. ¹

Al-Baladhuri relates from Abu al-Khattab that he assigned four thousand people to it and settled them there, and that two thousand men were moved to it from Malatya, Shamshat, Samisat, Kaysum, Duluk and Ra'ban. ¹

He had come before that as governor of al-Jazira, and he moved the markets of al-Raqqa to the open space between al-Raqqa and al-Rafiqa (see the founding of al-Rafiqa). ¹

Al-Hadi dismissed him and appointed Muhammad ibn Ibrahim in his place. ¹

• The information is from "Futuh al-Buldan" alone (pages 247 and 268 according to the source's data), and needs an additional source.