Topic > Al-Rashid and the Mecca Protocol of 802: A Plan to…

Al-Amin had a reputation for not being loyal and his brother al-Ma mun began to suspect him and was losing his trust because al-Amin wanted to rule the entire caliphate. In the end, the protocol brought together the two previous appointments in a single succession plan which envisaged al-Amin as the first successor to the caliphate and al-Mamun as the second with full guarantee. The full guarantee meant that al-Amin could not remove his brother from the line of succession in any form. The Mecca Protocol of 802 has now completely changed after the death of Harun al-Rashid. The Mecca Protocol consisted of two documents which signified the promise between one brother and another brother that al-Amin would respect the territorial terms. The first document declared that al-Amin would succeed his father al-Rashid as caliph and would agree to give inviolable rights to al-Ma mun's second succession and would agree to recognize al-Ma mun's powers over the eastern provinces in the field military, political and administrative. sovereignty over Khurasan. The purpose of the Caliph Protocol of 802 was primarily to protect potential attempts by the first successor to depose the second successor, which in the past continue to pose a problem in the Abbasid succession