The Wattassids are a ruling dynasty of Morocco.Like the Marinids, they are of Zenata Berber descent The two families are related, and the Marinids had recruited many viziers from the Wattasids.

These viziers assume the powers of the Sultans, seizing power when the last Marinid, Abu Muhammad Abd al-Haqq, who had massacred many of the Wattasids in 1459, was murdered during a popular revolt in Fez in 1465.Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Mahdi is the first Wattasid Sultan, but controls only the northern part of Morocco, the south being divided into several principalities.The Wattasids are finally supplanted in 1554, after the Battle of Tadla, by the Saadi princes of Tagmadert who have ruled all the South of Morocco since 1511.