He was heir presumptivetoSa'id Pasha. However, in 1858, a special train conveying Ahmad Rifaat Pasha was being carried on a car float across the Nile at Kafr el-Zayyat.[2] The train fell off the car float into the river where the prince drowned.[2]
Sa'id outlived Ahmad Rifaat until 1863, when he was succeeded by Isma'il Pasha.
His consorts were Shams Hanim (died 1891),[3] known as "Princess Ahmad",[4] mother of Ibrahim Fahmi Pasha (1847–1893),[3] Azmraftar Qadin (died 1904), mother of Ahmad Kamal Pasha (1857–1907),[3] Dilbar Jihan Qadin (died 1900), mother of Ayn al-Hayat Ahmad (1858–1910),[3] and Za'faran Qadin, an Abyssinian, and mother of a son and a daughter.[5]
His elder son Prince Ibrahim Fahmi was married to Nevjiwan Hanim. She was born in 1857. She was the mother of his sons Princes Ahmed Saif ud-din Ibrahim and Muhammad Wahid ud-din Ibrahim and his daughter Princess Shivakiar Ibrahim. She died in 1940.[6][7] Another wife was Princess Zainab Hanim. She was the daughter of Khedive Isma'il Pasha and his wife Jananiyar Hanim. They married in 1874. She died a year later in 1875, and he married her younger half-sister Princess Nimetullah Hanim in 1890, Isma'il’s daughter by the concubine Neshedil Qadin. However, the marriage was not consummated.[8][9]
His younger son Prince Ahmed Kamal was married to Nazparwar Hanim. She was the mother of Prince Yusuf Kamal. She died in 1925.[7] Another wife was Princess Jamila Fadila Hanim, daughter of Isma'il Pasha and his concubine Misl Jahan Qadin. They married in 1879.[8][9] His only daughter, Princess Ayn al-Hayat Ahmad was the first wife of Sultan Hussein Kamel, son of Isma'il Pasha and his concubine Nur Felek Qadin.[8][9]
^ abHughes, Hugh (1981). Middle East Railways. Harrow: Continental Railway Circle. p. 17. ISBN0-9503469-7-7.
^ abcdDoumani, Beshara (2003). Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. SUNY Press. p. 270. ISBN978-0-791-48707-5.
^Chennells, E. (1893). Recollections of an Egyptian Princess. William Blackwood. p. 274.
^Walz, T.; Cuno, K.M. (2010). Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. American University in Cairo Press. p. 54. ISBN978-977-416-398-2.
^Brookes, D.S. (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. p. 255. ISBN978-0-292-78335-5.
^ abCatalogue of the Abbas Hilmi II Papers. Durham University Library. 2020. pp. 321, 323.
^ abcCuno, K.M. (2015). Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. Gender and Globalization. Syracuse University Press. p. 37. ISBN978-0-8156-5316-5.
^ abcDoumani, B. (2003). Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. State University of New York Press. p. 270. ISBN978-0-7914-5679-8.
