Abdallah ibn Hamdan

Abu'l-Hayja Abdallah ibn Hamdan (Arabic: أبو الهيجاء عبد الله بن حمدان; died 929) was an early member of the Hamdanid dynasty, who served the Abbasid Caliphate as a military commander and governor of Mosul (in 905/06–913/14, 914/15, and again in 925–29).

[1] Released shortly after, Abdallah joined Mu'nis in a campaign against the rebellious governor of Adharbayjan, Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj in 919, and in 920 received governorship of the districts of Tariq Khurasan and Dinawar.

Al-Muqtadir readily gave into Mu'nis' demands to banish Harun, but the conspirators, driven by Nazuk, now determined to depose the caliph outright.

[11] For his role, Abdallah secured an extensive governorship, but within a few days, opposition to the new regime arose, and al-Qahir and his supporters were besieged in the caliphal palace.

[12][13][14] His qualities as an honest and generous man and a brave warrior were universally admired, so that even the restored caliph, al-Muqtadir, issued a pardon for him in hopes that he might be taken alive, and then mourned his death.

[18][19] Abdallah's younger son Ali, better known as Sayf al-Dawla, would go on to establish his own emirate in Aleppo and northern Syria in the mid-940s, and became famous as a champion of Islam against the Byzantine Empire and as a patron of the arts and letters at his court.