While Abu Dhabi's population was violently anti-Wahhabi (a number of incursions into Buraimi had helped to cement Wahhabi unpopularity), Hamdan sent a mission to Ibn Saud in Riyadh, possibly in a bid to bolster his rule by gaining external allies.
[4] In August 1922, after ruling for ten years, Hamdan was killed by his younger brother, Sultan, who seized the throne.
There were other difficulties also: Sultan inherited the unstable interior that Hamdan had barely pacified, pitching him into a series of wars and outbreaks of peace which dogged his rule.
Many members of the family may have been involved in the plot to kill Saqr, including the eldest brother, Khalifa, who nevertheless held fast to his promise not to sit on the throne.
It was Shakhbut, eldest son of Hamdan's assassin Sultan, who finally became ruler in 1928.
He was also married to Shamsa bint Ahmed Al Suwaidi, with whom he had a daughter, named Maryam.
[5] Hamdan's other daughter, Maryam was married to Hazza bin Sultan Al Nahyan until his death in 1958.