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Sa'ad ad-Din II
Sa'ad ad-Din II was the last ruler of the Ifat Sultanate, a Muslim state of the Walashma dynasty in the Horn of Africa. He was captured and executed around 1410 during the campaigns of the Ethiopian Emperor Dawit I, forcing his surviving family into exile in Yemen. His sons returned to found the Adal Sultanate, and the region of Adal was later associated with his name.
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