—wrapped in garments worth one thousand dinars.

The ʿAlawī qadi pronounced the takbīr over him five times.

When the news of his death reached Muʿizz al-Dawla in Iraq, he was deeply shaken and said, “My own days will not be long after his,” and so it proved.

They then transferred his body to Mayyāfāriqīn and buried him beside his mother.

He had gathered the dust that settled on him during his battles until it filled roughly a handful, and he instructed that it be placed upon his cheek.

His reign lasted a little over twenty years. After him, his son Saʿd al-Dawla governed Aleppo for twenty-five years.

Their cousin—the prince and foremost poet of his age—Abū Firās (1) al-Ḥārith ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥamdān, was captured and held in Constantinople for years until Sayf al-Dawla ransomed him. Exceptionally handsome, he first ruled Manbij, then seized Homs, but was killed at the age of thirty-seven in 357 AH.

133 – Muʿizz al-Dawla, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Būyah al-Daylamī

The sovereign Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Būyah ibn Fannā Khusraw ibn Tammām ibn Kūhī al-Daylamī, the Persian.

Ibn Khallikān traces his ancestry back to the Sasanian king Kisrā Bahrām Gūr (2)—and Allah knows best.

His father was a fishmonger, and this Aḥmad is said to have occasionally gathered firewood himself.

He ruled Iraq for a little over twenty years while the caliph remained powerless before him. He died of an intestinal illness and appointed his son ʿIzz al-Dawla as successor.