Muhammad ibn Badlay

Muhammad ibn Badlay
محمد بن بادلاي
Muhammad ibn Badlay ; محمد بن بادلاي
5th Sultan of the Sultanate of Adal
Reign	1445–1471
Predecessor	Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din
Successor	Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din
Dynasty	Walashma dynasty
Religion	Islam

Muhammad ibn Badlay (Arabic: محمد بن بادلاي) (reigned 1445–1471) was a Sultan of the Sultanate of Adal. He was the son of Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din. During his reign the Adalite ruler Muhammad and the Solomonic ruler Baeda Maryam agreed to a truce and both states in the following decades saw an unprecedent period of peace and stability.^[1]

^ Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003), p. 7. The Futuh mentions that he had a brother, Shams ad-Din bin Badlay, who had no issue.(ibid., p.8).

[1] Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003), p. 7. The Futuh mentions that he had a brother, Shams ad-Din bin Badlay, who had no issue.(ibid., p.8).

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