Abu Asida Muhammad II
# Abu Asida Muhammad II

Abu-Asida Muhammad II (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد أبو عصيدة) also known as Abû `Asida Muhammad al-Muntasir Billah, (1279–1309) was the Hafsid dynasty caliph of Tunis. He was the posthumous son of Yahya II al-Wathiq and successor of Abu Hafs Umar bin Yahya. He reigned from 1295 to September 1309.

## Life

During his reign a treaty was signed with the Republic of Venice in 1305 and with James II of Aragon in1301 and $1308.^{:115–118}$

During his reign there was an attempt to end the schism with the western branch of the Hafsids. Abu-Zakariyya, ruler of Bejaia died in 1301 and was succeeded by his son Abu-l-Baqa Khalid An-Nasr. This prince approached Abu-Assida and concluded an agreement with him that whichever died first was to be succeeded by the other with whom he finally reached an agreement; a treaty was signed by which the first to die would be succeeded by the other. He died in 1309 and according to this agreement his nephew Abu-l-Baqā Khalid was to be proclaimed emir, but instead a son of Abu Faris bin Ibrahim I, named Abu Yahya Abu Bakr I al-Shahid was proclaimed by the Almohad sheikhs of $Tunis.^{:113,126}$

