Fearing the sultan's vengeance, Abu Said negotiated a deal with the Marinids, in which he were to yield Málaga in exchange for the governorship of Salé in North Africa. When this became known to the people of Málaga, they considered it treachery, rose up and deposed him in favor of Ismail.[22] Later, Ismail imprisoned Abu Said in Cártama after suspicions of attempting to flee Málaga, and later moved him to Salobreña where he died in 1320.[23] With her son in control of the city, Fatima helped him engineer another rebellion against Nasr,[9] enlisting the aid of Abu Said's old ally, Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula, the chief of the Volunteers of the Faith, and various factions within the capital.[9] Ismail's army swelled as he marched towards Granada, and the capital inhabitants opened the city gates for him.[23] Nasr, surrounded in the Alhambra, agreed to abdicate and retired to Guadix.[23] Ismail took the throne in February 1314 and Fatima entered court as queen mother.[24] Despite the falling out between her son and her husband, Fatima maintained good relations with her son, and appeared in various points of Ibn al-Khatib's biography of the Sultan. She assisted Ismail in political matters, in which according to Rubiera Mata she was "as gifted with great qualities as her husband."[25] When Ismail was fatally attacked by a relative in 1325, it was to her palace he was brought before he succumbed to his injuries.[26]