Jamāl al-Warāʾ, Sharaf al-Wuzarāʾ (1).

He had no remaining rival save al-Basāsīrī, the victorious commander Abū al-Ḥārith the Turk (2). Abū al-Ḥārith became exceedingly powerful, leaving to al-Malik al-Raḥīm ibn Būyah (3) nothing but the title of sovereignty. He then deposed al-Qāʾim, took possession of Baghdad, and had the Friday sermon delivered there on behalf of the Egyptian ruler al-Mustanṣir. He killed the Head of the Bureau Chiefs, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Muslimah (4).

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Hamadhānī said: “The Head of the Bureau Chiefs was brought out wearing a coarse cloak and a pointed cap, a leather halter round his neck, while he kept reciting, ‘Say: O Allah, Lord of dominion…’ (Āl ʿImrān 26), repeating it continually. He was paraded on a camel, then sewn inside the hide of an ox with its two horns, suspended with two hooks fixed into his jaws (5), and he died before the end of the day, in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 450 AH (6).”

I say: He was among the eminent scholars and nobles.

Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq related to us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd al-Salām related to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭarāʾifī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī all said:

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Muʿaddal informed us; ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us in the year 380 AH; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Firyābī informed us; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; Abū ʿAwanah narrated to us, from Qatādah, from Anas, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, that—