Al-Husayn ibn Sa'id explained

Al-Husayn ibn Sa'id
Known For:	Member of the Hamdanid dynasty

Abu 'Abdallāh al-Husayn ibn Sa'id ibn Hamdan was a member of the Hamdanid dynasty, grandson of its founder, Hamdan ibn Hamdun, and cousin of the emirs Nasir al-Dawla and Sayf al-Dawla.

In 944, he was sent by Nasir al-Dawla to seize Syria, allocated to the Hamdanids by the amir al-umara Tuzun, from the forces of Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid. Husayn was initially successful in occupying the north of the country, but was soon driven out of Syria by Ikhshidid forces, led by al-Ikhshid himself. Husayn married Sarirah, a former slave of Ibn Ra'iq.^[1]

Sources

• Book: Bianquis, Thierry . Autonomous Egypt from Ibn Ṭūlūn to Kāfūr, 868–969 . Thierry Bianquis . Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517 . Cambridge University Press . Petry . Carl F. . Cambridge . 1998 . 0-521-47137-0 . 86–119 . https://books.google.com/books?id=y3FtXpB_tqMC&pg=PA86 .

Notes and References

1. Shawkat M. Toorawa and Library of Arabic Literature: Ibn al-Sa'i – Consorts of Caliphs, New York University Press, New York 2017, p. 81.