Daoud al-Hamid li-llah | |
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| Imam of Hafizi Isma'ilism | |
| In office 1171 — 1207/8 | |
| Preceded by | Al-Adid li-Din Allah (as Fatimid caliph) |
| Succeeded by | Sulayman Badr al-Din |
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| Born | Daoud ibn al-Adid |
| Died | 1207/8 |
| Religion | Shi'a Islam |
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| Sect | Hafizi Isma'ilism |
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Daoud ibn al-Adid (also spelled Dawud and Da'ud; Arabic: داود بن العاضد, romanized: Dāwūd ibn al-ʿĀḍid), known by the regnal name of al-Ḥāmid liʾllāh (الحامد لله) among his followers, was the 25th imam of Hafizi Isma'ilism, and pretender to the Fatimid Caliphate.
Daoud was the oldest son of the last Fatimid caliph, al-Adid. When al-Adid died in 1171, Daoud was a child. He was not allowed to succeed to the throne by the all-powerful vizier, Saladin, who inaugurated his own Ayyubid regime instead. Like the rest of his family, Daoud spent the rest of his life until his death in 1207/8 in captivity, despite occasional revolts and conspiracies by Fatimid sympathizers. He is reported to have had a son, Sulayman Badr al-Din, conceived in secret, who became the last Hafizi imam.