{ "id": "person/saud-bin-abdulaziz", "class": "person", "slug": "saud-bin-abdulaziz", "label": { "ar": "سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود", "en": "Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud", "ur": "سعود بن عبدالعزیز آل سعود" }, "summary": { "ar": "ثاني ملوك المملكة العربية السعودية (1902–1969)، أكبر أبناء الملك عبد العزيز الباقين عند وفاته، وولي عهده من سنة 1933. اعتلى العرش في 9 نوفمبر 1953، وفي عهده توسّع الحرمان الشريفان وتأسست جامعة الملك سعود، ثم عصفت بالمملكة أزمة مالية وتصدّع داخل الأسرة، فتنازل عن سلطاته لفيصل سنة 1958 ونُقلت إليه كاملة سنة 1964، وخُلع في 2 نوفمبر 1964، وتوفي في أثينا في 23 فبراير 1969 ودُفن في مقبرة العود بالرياض.", "en": "Second King of Saudi Arabia (1902–1969), the eldest surviving son of King Abdulaziz and his crown prince from 1933. He ascended the throne on 9 November 1953; his reign saw the expansion of the two holy mosques and the founding of King Saud University, then a financial crisis and a rift within the family, the transfer of his powers to Faisal in 1958 and in full in 1964, and his deposition on 2 November 1964. He died in Athens on 23 February 1969 and was buried at Al Oud cemetery in Riyadh.", "ur": "سعودی عرب کے دوسرے بادشاہ (1902ء–1969ء)، شاہ عبد العزیز کے سب سے بڑے زندہ صاحبزادے اور 1933ء سے ولی عہد۔ 9 نومبر 1953ء کو تخت نشین ہوئے؛ ان کے دور میں حرمین کی توسیع ہوئی اور شاہ سعود یونیورسٹی قائم ہوئی، پھر مالی بحران اور خاندانی اختلاف آیا، 1958ء میں اختیارات فیصل کو منتقل ہوئے اور 1964ء میں مکمل طور پر، اور 2 نومبر 1964ء کو وہ معزول ہوئے۔ 23 فروری 1969ء کو ایتھنز میں وفات پائی اور ریاض کے العود قبرستان میں دفن ہوئے۔" }, "stub": false, "wings": [ "people" ], "regions": [ "arabia" ], "periods": [], "tags": [], "aliases": [], "themes": [], "span": { "earliest": 1902.0369343655243, "latest": 1969.148510920795 }, "display": { "start": { "edtf": "1902-01-15", "hijri": "1319", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Born at Kuwait City on 15 January 1902 on the English article, the Arabic article and Wikidata; the Arabic article pairs the date with 3 Shawwal 1319 AH, which agrees with tabular conversion, so the Hijri year recorded (1319) is the derived year of the same date. No place entity for Kuwait City exists in the museum, so the place is carried in this note and no born_in relation is written.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en", "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar", "source/wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz" ] }, "end": { "edtf": "1969-02-23", "hijri": "1388", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "He died of a heart attack in Athens on 23 February 1969 (English article; Wikidata place Athens); his body was taken to Mecca, where the funeral ceremony took place at the Great Mosque, and he was buried next to his father's and grandfathers' graves at Al Oud cemetery in Riyadh (English article). No place entity for Athens exists in the museum, so the place is carried in this note and no died_in relation is written. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en", "source/wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz" ] } }, "data": { "names": [ { "value": "Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "سعود بن عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "Saud of Saudi Arabia", "kind": "regnal" }, { "value": "سعود بن عبدالعزیز آل سعود", "kind": "full" } ], "gender": "male", "roles": [ "ruler" ], "born": { "edtf": "1902-01-15", "hijri": "1319", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Born at Kuwait City on 15 January 1902 on the English article, the Arabic article and Wikidata; the Arabic article pairs the date with 3 Shawwal 1319 AH, which agrees with tabular conversion, so the Hijri year recorded (1319) is the derived year of the same date. No place entity for Kuwait City exists in the museum, so the place is carried in this note and no born_in relation is written.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en", "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar", "source/wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz" ] }, "died": { "edtf": "1969-02-23", "hijri": "1388", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "He died of a heart attack in Athens on 23 February 1969 (English article; Wikidata place Athens); his body was taken to Mecca, where the funeral ceremony took place at the Great Mosque, and he was buried next to his father's and grandfathers' graves at Al Oud cemetery in Riyadh (English article). No place entity for Athens exists in the museum, so the place is carried in this note and no died_in relation is written. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en", "source/wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz" ] }, "faith": [ { "value": "unknown", "basis": "unknown", "note": "No source read names a school or branch for him. In full: the English article names no religion for him at all; the Arabic article recounts his childhood Qur'anic schooling under Shaykh Abdul Rahman ibn Nasir ibn Mufayrij in Riyadh — formation and upbringing, which never count as an affiliation attestation — and names no madhhab; the Urdu article narrates his reign, including the mosque expansions he ordered as king, which are acts of office, and names no school; Wikidata's only religion value is Islam (Q432) generically. A single structured value naming no branch (the configuration of person/ali-mahdi-muhammad) is not an attestation, so the value stays unknown under the two-source rule and the doubt rule.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en", "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar", "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur", "source/wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz" ] } ], "external_ids": { "wikidata": "Q244206" }, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en", "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar", "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur", "source/wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz" ], "provenance": { "layer": "own-research", "source": "English Wikipedia 'Saud of Saudi Arabia' (revision 1371033670 of 24 August 2026), Arabic Wikipedia 'سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود' (revision 77009555 of 18 October 2026) and Urdu Wikipedia 'سعود بن عبدالعزیز آل سعود' (revision 11104225 of 21 June 2026), each fetched on 27 October 2026 by its recorded revision id and asserted equal to it, with Wikidata item Q244206 (item revision 2558583123 of 19 October 2026), likewise fetched by revision id and asserted equal. The man was verified absent from the museum in both directions: no person file matches his name in any script and no museum record carries Q244206. His Arabic label سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود collides with no existing record's label. His kingship succession to his father and his sonship are both written here, in the subject's record, on the English article's infobox (predecessor Abdulaziz) and Wikidata's father value (Q151509); no relations are written for his birth or death places, because the museum has no place entities for Kuwait City or Athens.", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)", "run": "century-additions-83" }, "status": { "review": "published", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)" } }, "prose": { "ar": { "sections": [ { "heading": "النشأة وولاية العهد", "markdown": "وُلد في مدينة الكويت في 15 يناير 1902، وهو 3 شوال 1319هـ، في السنة التي استعاد فيها والده الرياض من آل رشيد. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar} وتلقّى تعليمه في الرياض على الشيخ عبد الرحمن بن ناصر بن مفيريج، فتعلّم القراءة والكتابة وحفظ القرآن وتفقّه في الدين والحديث، ولما كبر أوكل إليه والده مهام عسكرية وسياسية وإدارية، منها قيادة الحملات على حائل. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar} وبعد الحرب العالمية الثانية درس وليًا للعهد الوضع المالي مع الخبراء، فأُجريت إصلاحات في وزارة المالية واستُعين بخبراء أجانب، وأُسست مؤسسة النقد العربي السعودي سنة 1952. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar}" }, { "heading": "الحكم والخلع", "markdown": "خلف سعود والده في 9 نوفمبر 1953. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} وشهد عهده توسعة المسجد الحرام والمسجد النبوي — اكتملت توسعة المدينة سنة 1955 — وتأسيس أول جامعة سعودية في الرياض سنة 1957. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur} {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} ثم أدّت الديون المتصاعدة وانخفاض قيمة الريال والتنافس داخل الأسرة، تحت ضغط الأسرة والعلماء، إلى نقل سلطاته التنفيذية إلى ولي العهد فيصل في 24 مارس 1958، فبقي ملكًا دستوريًا. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur} وفي سنة 1964 نقلت فتوى العلماء وقرار كبار الأمراء سلطاته المتبقية إلى فيصل، وفي 1 نوفمبر 1964 أعلن المفتي محمد بن إبراهيم آل الشيخ خلع الملك سعود، وبُويع فيصل ملكًا في 2 نوفمبر 1964. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar}" }, { "heading": "الوفاة", "markdown": "توفي سعود بأزمة قلبية في أثينا في 23 فبراير 1969. ونُقل جثمانه إلى مكة حيث أُقيمت صلاة الجنازة في المسجد الحرام، ودُفن بجوار قبور والده وأجداده في مقبرة العود بالرياض. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz}" }, { "heading": "ملاحظة على السجل", "markdown": "لا يذكر أي مصدر مدرسة دينية لسعود. فالمقالة الإنجليزية لا تذكر له دينًا، والمقالة العربية تروي تعليمه القرآني في طفولته وهو تنشئة لا شهادة انتماء، والمقالة الأردية تسرد حكمه، وقيمة الدين الوحيدة في ويكيداتا هي الإسلام دون فرع. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar} {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur} {cite:wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz} ولذلك تُسجَّل عقيدته «غير معروفة».\n\nخلف والده الملك عبد العزيز على العرش، وهذه الخلافة وبنوّته مكتوبتان في هذا السجل؛ أما خلفه فيصل فقد بُني سجله في الدفعة نفسها وتحمل سجلّه خلافته. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en}" }, { "heading": "المصادر", "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/saud-bin-abdulaziz", "lang": "ar", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "en": { "sections": [ { "heading": "Early life and crown prince", "markdown": "He was born in Kuwait City on 15 January 1902, in the year his father recaptured Riyadh from the Rashidis; the Arabic article pairs the date with 3 Shawwal 1319 AH. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar} He was taught reading, writing and Qur'anic memorisation in Riyadh by Shaykh Abdul Rahman ibn Nasir ibn Mufayrij, and as he grew his father entrusted him with military and diplomatic missions, including the campaigns against Ha'il. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar} As crown prince after the Second World War he studied the kingdom's finances with experts, brought in advisers to reorganise the finance ministry, and oversaw the founding of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency in 1952. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar}" }, { "heading": "Reign and deposition", "markdown": "Saud succeeded his father on 9 November 1953. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} His reign saw the expansion of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina — the Medina expansion was completed in 1955 — and the founding of Saudi Arabia's first university in Riyadh in 1957. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur} {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} Mounting debt, the falling value of the riyal and rivalry within the royal family led, under pressure from the family and the ulama, to his transfer of executive powers to Crown Prince Faisal on 24 March 1958, leaving him a constitutional figurehead. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur} A fatwa of the ulama and a decision of the senior princes in 1964 transferred his remaining powers to Faisal, and on 1 November 1964 the Grand Mufti Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh announced Saud's deposition; Faisal was proclaimed king on 2 November 1964. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar}" }, { "heading": "Death", "markdown": "Saud died of a heart attack in Athens on 23 February 1969. His body was taken to Mecca, where the funeral ceremony took place at the Great Mosque, and he was buried next to his father's and grandfathers' graves at Al Oud cemetery in Riyadh. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz}" }, { "heading": "Note on the record", "markdown": "No source names a religious school for Saud. The English article names no religion for him; the Arabic article recounts his childhood Qur'anic schooling, which is formation rather than an affiliation attestation; the Urdu article narrates his reign; and Wikidata's only religion value is Islam, with no branch. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar} {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur} {cite:wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz} His faith is therefore recorded as unknown.\n\nHe succeeded his father, King Abdulaziz, on the throne, and both that succession and his sonship are written in this record; his own successor, Faisal, was built in the same batch and carries his succession in his own record. {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en}" }, { "heading": "Sources", "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/saud-bin-abdulaziz", "lang": "en", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "ur": { "sections": [ { "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور دور حکومت", "markdown": "وہ 15 جنوری 1902ء کو کویت شہر میں پیدا ہوئے، جس سال ان کے والد نے ریاض واپس لیا؛ عربی مقالہ اس تاریخ کو 3 شوال 1319ھ سے جوڑتا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar} ان کے دور میں مسجد الحرام اور مسجد نبوی کی توسیع ہوئی اور 1957ء میں ریاض میں عرب کی پہلی یونیورسٹی قائم ہوئی، جس میں فنون، سائنس، طب، زراعت اور تجارت کے شعبے تھے، اور 1960ء میں مدینہ میں جامعہ اسلامیہ قائم ہوا۔ {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur} مالی بحران اور خاندانی اختلاف کے باعث 24 مارچ 1958ء کو انھوں نے تمام ملکی اختیارات شہزادہ فیصل کے سپرد کر دیے، اور 1964ء میں علما کے فتوے اور خاندان کے فیصلے سے وہ معزول ہوئے اور فیصل بادشاہ بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur} {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar}" }, { "heading": "وفات", "markdown": "23 فروری 1969ء کو ایتھنز میں دل کے دورے سے ان کی وفات ہوئی؛ ان کی میت مکہ لائی گئی اور وہ ریاض کے العود قبرستان میں اپنے والد کے پہلو میں دفن ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz}" }, { "heading": "ریکارڈ پر نوٹ", "markdown": "کوئی ماخذ ان کے لیے کوئی مذہبی مکتب بیان نہیں کرتا: انگریزی مقالہ ان کا کوئی مذہب بیان نہیں کرتا، عربی مقالہ ان کی بچپن کی قرآنی تعلیم بیان کرتا ہے جو تربیت ہے نہ کہ وابستگی کی گواہی، اور ویکی ڈیٹا کی واحد مذہبی قدر اسلام ہے بغیر کسی فرع کے؛ لہٰذا ان کا مذہب «نامعلوم» درج ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar} {cite:wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz}" }, { "heading": "مآخذ", "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/saud-bin-abdulaziz", "lang": "ur", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" } }, "degree": 8, "contemporaries": [ "person/abdul-hai-arifi", "person/abdul-hamid-khan-bhashani", "person/abdul-majid-daryabadi", "person/abdul-majid-sindhi", "person/abdullah-musawi-shirazi", "person/abdur-rahman-chughtai", "person/ahmad-yar-khan-naimi", "person/al-jundi-ali-al-sayyid", "person/al-tahir-al-khamiri", "person/alauddin-khan", "person/allameh-abul-hasan-sharani", "person/amadou-hampate-ba" ], "updated": "2026-10-27", "connections": [ { "to": "person/faisal-bin-abdulaziz", "type": "predecessor_of", "inverse": true, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en", "source/wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ar" ] }, { "to": "person/ibn-saud", "type": "successor_of", "inverse": false, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en", "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar" ] }, { "to": "person/ibn-saud", "type": "child_of", "inverse": false, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en", "source/wikidata-saud-bin-abdulaziz" ] }, { "to": "group/al-saud", "type": "member_of", "inverse": false, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-en", "source/wikipedia-saud-bin-abdulaziz-ar" ] } ], "related": [ "person/khalid-bin-abdulaziz", "group/al-saud", "person/faisal-bin-abdulaziz", "person/ibn-saud", "person/abdullah-bin-abdulaziz", "person/fahd-bin-abdulaziz", "person/salman-bin-abdulaziz", "event/unification-of-saudi-arabia" ], "license": { "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "data": "CC0 1.0" } }