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Sultan bin Hamoud Al Rashid (سلطان بن حمود الرشيد; 1870–April 1908) was the eighth Emir of Jabal Shammar from 1906 until 1908.

Biography
Sultan was born around 1870, the third son of Hamoud bin Obaid Al Rashid. In June 1905, disgruntled by the rulership of the Emir, Abdulaziz bin Mutaib Al Rashid, Sultan seized independent control of Jauf al Amir and its surroundings. He complained to the Ottoman Sultan against Ibn Rashid, but without result. On 12 April, 1906, Emir Abdulaziz was killed in the Battle of Rawdat Muhanna, succeeded by his eldest son (and Sultan's nephew), the barely 18-year-old Mutaib bin Abdulaziz. Despite Mutaib being popular with the people of Ha'il, he was not supported by the Obaid branch of the Al Rashid family. Sultan and two of his brothers, Saud and Faisal, began planning to murder the Emir and other members of the House of Rashid in order to seize control for themselves. According to Gertrude Bell, Sultan was unwilling to kill the Emir Mutaib, though Saud told him that whoever killed Mutaib would become Emir. In late December 1906, the brothers invited the Emir, his brothers, and cousins on a hunting trip. There, Mutaib was killed by Sultan, Talal bin Nayef Al Rashid (the father of Muhammad, the twelfth Emir and Abdullah) was killed by Saud, and Mutaib's brother Mishaal was killed by Faisal. Sultan asked who the people of Ha'il support, and they said Muhammad, the remaining full brother of Mutaib, who was then killed in Ha'il. The only son of Abdulaziz who was not killed in the bloodshed was Saud, half-brother of the murdered Emir, who was swiftly taken to Medina.

Upon becoming Emir, Sultan reinitiated conflicts with Ibn Saud, who had been made peace with by Mutaib. Sultan allied with the Emir of Buraydah and the Sheikh of Mutair, Faisal al-Duwaish, against Ibn Saud, though this was not enough to quell the growing Wahhabi power, and they were defeated at the Battle of Tarfiya. Sultan and his brothers Saud and Faisal had a falling out and he became increasing unpopular in Ha'il. The three agreed in 1908 for Saud to become Emir and for Sultan to leave for Tayma. When Sultan left, Saud realized that he had emptied the treasury and taken all of the treasure for himself, so he was tracked down at Mogug and killed.