Muhammad ibn Thabit

Muhammad ibn Thabit was a head of the Banu Thabit, the clan ruling fourteenth-century Tripoli. Ibn Khaldun records that after townspeople killed the Hafsid governor, he was set over Tripoli in 1326 or 1327 and ruled on his own account for about twenty years; the Hafsids of Tunis kept only the right to name its qadi.

His domains ran from Tripoli to Gabes and Jabal Nafusa. He also annexed Jerba, retaken by the Hafsids in 1347 or 1348.