Badi IV also known as Badi abu Shilluk, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Sennar.

When Emperor Iyasu II of Ethiopia

Iyasu II of Ethiopia

Iyasu II or Joshua II was of Ethiopia, and a member of the Gondar branch of Solomonic dynasty...

 invaded his realm in 1738, the army of Sennar under the leadership of Hamis, a prince of Darfur

Darfur

Darfur is a region in western Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916. The region is divided into three federal states: West Darfur, South Darfur, and North Darfur...

, inflicted a significant defeat of the invaders at the Battle of the Dindar River

Battle of the Dindar River

The Battle of the Dindar River was fought near the Dinder River in 1738, between the forces of the Ethiopian Emperor Iyasu II and the Sennar army under King Badi IV...

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He was deposed by his son, Nasir

Nasir of Sennar

Nasir was a ruler of the Kingdom of Sennar. He was the son of Badi IV, the previous ruler.He deposed his father Badi, with the help of the vizer Sheikh Adelan and his brother Abu Kalec the governor of Kordofan. Badi fled to sanctuary in Ethiopia, where Emperor Iyoas I appointed the deposed king...

, with the help of his vizer Sheikh Adelan and his brother Abu Kalec the governor of Kordofan. Badi fled to sanctuary in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

, where Ras Mikael Sehul

Mikael Sehul

Mikael Sehul was a Ras or governor of Tigray 1748–71 and again from 1772 until his death...

 became his mentor. Ras Mikael convinced Emperor Iyoas I

Iyoas I of Ethiopia

Iyoas I or Joas I was of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty...

 to appoint him governor of the province of Ras al-Fil, near the border with Sennar. However, despite the advice of Ras Wolde Leul, one of Iyoas' senior counselors, envoys from Sennar convinced Badi to return to Sennar where he was quietly murdered after an imprisonment of two years.

The Scots explorer James Bruce

James Bruce

James Bruce was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile.-Youth:...

 adds that Badi was killed by Welled Hassan, the governor of Atbara; because Welled Hassan had killed the king "with a lance, whereas the only lawful instrument was a sword", the governor was afterwards put to death.

One of the earliest existing charters for Sennar was issued in Badi's reign. It is a grant of immunity from taxes, dated A.H. 1145 (A.D. 1732-3), Badi gave to the faqih

Faqih

A Faqīh is an expert in fiqh, or, Islamic jurisprudence.A faqih is an expert in Islamic Law, and, as such, the word Faqih can literally be generally translated as Jurist.- The definition of Fiqh and its relation to the Faqih:...

Bishara, confirming a similar grant given to his father, faqih Ali b. Bursi.