Musa'id bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud

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Musa'id bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud (1923 - ) is a son of Ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia. He was also the father of Faisal ibn Musad, who assassinated Musa'id's half-brother and king at the time, Faisal. Musa'id was born in 1926. His mother was Jauhara bint Sa'd al-Sudayri, the widow of Ibn Saud's half-brother, Sa'd. He would later marry a daughter of the last Rashidi ruler, Watfa bint Muhammad bin Rashid, at the same time his father married one of her sisters, Jawhara bint Muhammad bin Rashid. From his union came Faisal ibn Musa'id. Another of Musa'id's sons was Khalid, who was killed in 1965 during demonstrations against a newly introduced television station in Riyadh. Faisal ibn Musa'id would later kill King Faisal, claiming revenge for this incident.

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