Rassid Zaydi imamate of Sa'da

The Rassids, the Zaydi imams of Sa'da, descended from al-Qasim al-Rassi ibn Ibrahim Tabataba ibn Isma'il al-Dibaj. ¹

The first to rise there was Yahya ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim al-Rassi. He called people to his allegiance at Sa'da and took the name al-Hadi, and he was given the oath there. Ibn Khaldun says that he was a jurist in legal rulings, and that Ibn Hazm reported an opinion of his on jurisprudence. ¹

His son Muhammad al-Murtada succeeded him, and his rule was unsettled. Then his brother al-Nasir Ahmad, whose rule became stable and passed to his sons. ¹

Their imamate in Sa'da continued without interruption until the Sulaymanids came from Mecca, when the Hawashim had expelled them, and they overcame them in Sa'da, and their state died out there in the sixth century AH. The imam of the House of al-Rassi remained among their descendants until after the seventh century AH. ¹