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Saif ibn Dhi Yazan was eventually stabbed to death by one of his
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states that a king named Ma'dikarib, probably Saif's son, was installed as his successor. However, Safiur Rahman
Mubarakpuri disagrees and stated that after Saif had died, the Yemenis were completely deprived from ruling by the
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for assistance to remove his half-brother Masruq from the throne of Himyar, but his pleas for help were denied by them as Masruq and the
Byzantines shared a common religion. Saif proceeded to meet with the
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Quraysh delegation ever meeting Saif, and he states that the story of the delegation was invented by the Yemenis as a form of apology for having degraded the Quraysh.
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After Masruq ibn Abraha had been killed in the battle, the
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narrated that the real name of Saif ibn Dhi Yazan was
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282:. This marriage resulted in Abraha having stronger relations with the Yemeni family of Dhu Jadan, as well as the birth of Saif's half-brother
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The latter agreed to Saif's request, on condition that Yemen be a vassal state of the Sasanian Empire. The general
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