Bayt Hadir ( ar, بيت حاضر ) is a village in

Sanhan District Sanhan and Bani Bahlul District ( ar, مديرية سنحان وبني بهلول, Sanḥān and Bani Bahlul) is a district of the Sana'a Governorate, Yemen. Its seat is Sanhan. As of 2003, the district had a population of 400,399 inhabitants. Th ...

Sanaa Governorate Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء '), also spelled San'a or Sana, is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Sanaa, which is also the national capital. However, the city of Sanaa is not part of the governorate but instead forms the separate governorate ...

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. It is located 13 km east-southeast of

Sanaa Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, is the capital and largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sanaa Governorate. The city is not part of the Governo ...

History

Bayt Hadir was the site of a battle in April or May of 902 (290 AH), between

al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya Abūʾl-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥasanī (al-Rass/Medina, 859 – Sa'dah, 18 August 911), better known by his honorific title of al-Hādī ilāʾl-Ḥaqq ( ar, الهادي الى الحق, , the Guide ...

, the first

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, and the

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-aligned

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, led by

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. Al-Hadi had originally set up a camp at the village of Subul, but after he learned that Ibn Khalaf was encamped at nearby

Bayt ʽUqab Bayt ʽUqab ( ar, بيت عقب ) is a village in Sanhan District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen. History Bayt ʽUqab first appears in historical sources in the year 903 (290 AH). In April or May of that year, the Al Tarif general Ibrahim ibn K ...

, he became concerned that his position was not secure, so he relocated to Bayt Hadir. The battle took place in two stages, with the Al Tarif defeated both times and forced to retreat. The '' Ghayat al-amani'' of

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also describes another battle that took place at Bayt Hadir much later, in 1393 (795 AH). It is also the find site of an ancient

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inscription.

References

{{Reflist Villages in Sanaa Governorate