 However, during an-Nasir Muhammad's third reign, the Al Fadl were granted high-quality "iqtaʿat" in abundance, strengthening the tribe to become the most powerful among the Bedouin of the Syrian Desert region.Beyond his personal admiration of the Bedouin, an-Nasir Muhammad's motivation for distributing "iqtaʿat" to Al Fadl, especially under the leadership of Muhanna ibn Isa, was to prevent them from defecting to the Ilkhanate, which their leaders had done frequently in the first half of the 14th century.Competition over "iqtaʿat" and the post of "amir al-ʿarab" (chief commander of the Bedouin) among the Bedouin tribes of Syria, particularly the Al Fadl, led to conflict and rebellion among the tribes, leading to mass bloodshed in Syria in the aftermath of an-Nasir Muhammad's death.