Ali Abu Hassun

[1] Ali Abu Hassun became regent for Ahmad's young son Nasir al-Qasiri.

[1] Ahmad came back after two years, and was able to rule from 1547 until 1549 when Fez and then Tlemcen were conquered by his southern Saadian rivals under Mohammed ash-Sheikh.

[2] Sultan Ahmad died that year, and Ali Abu Hassun again became regent, but since his country was occupied by the Saadians, he was offered asylum in Ottoman Algiers.

[2] Ali Abu Hassun paid off the Turkish troops and gave them the base of Peñon de Velez, which the Moroccans had reconquered in 1522.

Ali Abu Hassun was vanquished and killed by the Saadians at the Battle of Tadla in September 1554.