Zayd al-Aṣghar

Zayd, known as al-Aṣghar (the Younger) and styled ʿIzz al-Dīn, was a son of the Hasanid Emir of Mecca, Abu Numayy I. Medieval Arab genealogical and chronicle sources record him as sultan of Suakin on the African shore of the Red Sea, then as a naqib, or head, of the Talibid sayyids in Iraq.

In 698 AH, that is 1298–1299, he travelled there from the Hijaz. The ruling sultan granted him a landed estate at al-Hilla.