Ruler · 764 – 786

Al-Hadi

Lived 764 – 786; politician. Abbasid caliph of Abbasid Caliphate, 785 – 786.

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Lived: 764 – 786; 22 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Abbasid Caliphate
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Abbasid caliph

Abbasid Caliphate · the 4th of 43 dated reigns · 750 – 1302

Al-Saffah750 – 754

Al-Mansur754 – 775

Al-Mahdi775 – 785

Al-Hadi785 – 786

Harun al-Rashid786 – 809

Al-Amin809 – 813

Al-Ma'mun813 – 833

36 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 785 – 786 · 1 year · came to it aged 24

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 786, the year they died

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