Daoud ibn al-Adid

Daoud al-Hamid li-llah
Imam of Hafizi Isma'ilism
In office
1171 — 1207/8
Preceded byAl-Adid li-Din Allah (as Fatimid caliph)
Succeeded bySulayman Badr al-Din
Personal
Born
Daoud ibn al-Adid

Died1207/8
ReligionShi'a Islam
Parent
SectHafizi Isma'ilism

Daoud ibn al-Adid (also spelled Dawud and Da'ud; Arabic: داود بن العاضد, romanizedDāwūd 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.