The story begins when a group of Malabars sent by the Ali Rajas of Kannannur burnt down the sultan's palace and kidnapped him. A group of courageous maldivians decided to liberate Maldives. Their leader was Hassan Manikfaanu. When he liberated Maldives, he was renamed as Dhonbandaarain. Later, Dhonbandaarain defeated some other Malabars at Dhonakulhi and was again renamed as Hassan Rannabanderi Manikfaanu. The people of Maldives offered him to be their sultan's but Dhonbandaarain refused by saying that there was a sultan of Maldives still living (that is the kidnapped sultan-Sultan Mukarram Mohammed Imaadhuddin). When Sultan Mukarram Mohammed Imaadhuddin died, Dhonbandaarain became the Sultan and was called Sultan Ghazee Hassan Izzuddin.
