Abdallah al-Ghalib

Abdallah al-Ghalib Billah (Arabic: عبد الله الغالب; b.

With his first wife Sayyida Rabia, Mohammed al-Shaykh had three sons, but the two oldest had died while he was still alive (in 1550 and in 1551).

Shortly after Abdallah came to power, three of his younger brothers fled the country and joined the Ottoman Turks.

[4][5] Abdallah al-Ghalib Billah died on 22 January 1574 of an asthma attack.

He was succeeded by his son Abdallah Mohammed, despite a Saadian inheritance rule that decreed that the throne pass on to his eldest surviving brother, the exiled Abd al-Malik.