Al-Amin

al-Amin الأمين
Khalifah Amir al-Mu'minin
Gold dinar of al-Amin, minted in Baghdad in 811
6th Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
Reign	24 March 809 – 27 September 813
Predecessor	Harun al-Rashid
Successor	al-Ma'mun
Born	April 787 Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Died	27 September 813 (aged 26) Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Burial	Baghdad
Spouse	Lubana bint Ali ibn al-Mahdi
Issue	Musa Abdallah
Names Abu Musa Muhammad al-Amin ibn Harun al-Rashid
Dynasty	Abbasid
Father	Harun al-Rashid
Mother	Zubaidah bint Ja`far
Religion	Sunni Islam

Abu Musa Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rashid (Arabic: أبو موسى محمد بن هارون الرشيد, romanized: Abū Mūsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd; April 787 – 24/25 September 813), better known by his laqab of al-Amin (Arabic: الأمين, romanized: al-Amīn), was the sixth Arab Abbasid caliph from 809 to 813.

Al-Amin succeeded his father, Harun al-Rashid, in 809 and ruled until he was deposed and killed in 813, during the civil war by his half-brother, al-Ma'mun.