Ismāʿīl ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī () was an eighth century Abbasid governor of Egypt and Aleppo.
A member of the Abbasid family, he was a son of Salih ibn Ali; . and a first cousin of the first two Abbasid caliphs al-Saffah () and al-Mansur (). During the reign of Harun al-Rashid () he was appointed as governor of Egypt in 797. After an administration lasting slightly less than a year, he was dismissed from that province; (who moves his governorship to 798–799). , does not include him in his governors list. and instead posted to Aleppo and Qinnasrin, which he proceeded to hold for an unspecified length of time.The latest possible date for the end of his Aleppine governorship is 802. ; . Ibn al-Adim goes on to say that Isma'il later served as governor of Damascus, but Cobb was unable to find any corroborating sources for this claim.
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