Al-Mahdi

al-Mahdi ٱلْـمَـهْـدِي‎
Khalifah Amir al-Mu'minin
Gold Dinar of al-Mahdi
3rd Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
Reign	6 October 775 – 24 July 785
Predecessor	al-Mansur
Successor	al-Hadi
Born	744 or 745 Humeima, Bilad al-Sham (modern-day Jordan)
Died	24 July 785 (aged 40–41)
Burial	Masabadhan
Consorts	List Rayta bint al-Saffah al-Khayzuran bint Atta Asma bint Atta[a] Umm Abdallah Ruqayya Muhayyat Rahim Bahtariyah Shaklah Maknunah Basbas Hulah Hasanah Malkah
Issue	Musa al-Hadi Harun al-Rashid Abbasa Ubayd Allah Ulayya Ibrahim Mansur Banuqa Aliyah Ali Abd Allah Isa
Names Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī
Dynasty	Abbasid
Father	al-Mansur
Mother	Umm Musa Arwa bint Mansur al-Himyari
Religion	Islam

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله المنصور; 744 or 745 – 785), better known by his regnal name al-Mahdī (المهدي, "He who is guided by God"), was the third Abbasid Caliph who reigned from 775 to his death in 785. He succeeded his father, al-Mansur.
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