Haddah

Since the time of al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya, the first Imam of Yemen, Haddah was often used as a base of operations against Sanaa.^[3] It was also frequently attacked from Sanaa.^[3] An early mention in the Ghayat al-amani of Yahya ibn al-Husayn records that Haddah was the site of a minor battle in November or December of 901 CE (Dhu'l-Hijjah, 288 AH).^[5] The battle was won by forces loyal to Imam al-Hadi.^[5] The following year, al-Hadi sent a force, led by his son Abu'l-Qasim Muhammad and his own brother Abdullah, to Haddah and nearby Sana' (not the same as Sanaa).^[5] They were attacked, but they were victorious and their attackers were routed.^[5] Historical texts mention that Haddah's trees were cut down as punishment on multiple occasions.^[3] One was in 1273 or 1274 CE (672 AH), when the Rasulid sultan al-Muzaffar Yusuf I razed Haddah and Sana' and cut down their trees.^[5] Haddah still had many trees through the mid-20th century,^[2] and was described in 1962 by Husayn ibn Ali al-Waysi as a favored picnic spot for Sana'nis,^[5] but most of the trees were cut down in the 1980s as Haddah was built up into a suburb of Sanaa.^[2]