until al-Muqtadī came to the throne; he kept him as vizier for two years and then removed him. (1) In 476 AH Sultan Malikshāh summoned him and appointed him deputy over Diyār Bakr. His son Abū al-Qāsim thereupon seized Āmid after a lengthy siege, while he himself took Mayyāfāriqīn. (2)
He was open-handed, widely praised, accomplished, and awe-inspiring—one of the outstanding figures of his age—and he lived a little over eighty years.
He died while serving as governor of Mosul in 482 AH. (3)
325 – Rizq Allāh, son of the Imām Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Tamīmī *
He was the son of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Asad ibn al-Layth ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Aswad ibn Sufyān ibn Yazīd ibn Ukayna (4) ibn al-Haytham ibn ʿAbd Allāh—whose former name had been ʿAbd al-Lāt; it is said that he was a Companion—and he was the son
(1) The report is found in al-Kamil, vol. 10, pp. 109-111, and in Wafayat al-Ayan, vol. 5, p. 128. Ibn Jahir was removed from the vizierate twice. The first dismissal occurred under the caliph al-Qaʾim after a dispute with Nizam al-Mulk; he was later reinstated, and poets praised and congratulated him on his return (al-Kamil 10/57-59; al-Fakhri, p. 294). The second dismissal, mentioned by the present author, took place during the caliphate of al-Muqtadi.
(2) See al-Kamil 10/129, 134-137, 143-144, and Wafayat al-Ayan 5/128.
(3) Al-Muntazam 9/54; al-Kamil 1/182-183; Wafayat al-Ayan 5/131, which states that he died in 483 AH, a date likewise given by the other biographical sources.
(*) Ikamal 1/109 and 4/61; Manaqib al-Imam Ahmad, p. 525; Muʿjam al-Udabaʾ 11/136-138; al-Kamil of Ibn al-Athir 10/253; Maʿrifat al-Qurraʾ al-Kibar 1/356-357; al-Ibar 3/320-321; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 4/1208; Duwal al-Islam 2/17; al-Mustafad min Dhayl Tarikh Baghdad, pp. 116-118; al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya 12/150; Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila 1/77-85; Ghaya al-Nihaya 1/284; al-Maqsid al-Arshad, fols. 111-112; al-Manhaj al-Ahmad 2/164-171; al-Durr al-Munaddad, fol. 55; Tabaqat al-Mufassirin 1/171-172; Shadhrat al-Dhahab 3/384; Hadiyyat al-ʿArifin 1/367.
(4) The word is vocalised with a dumma on the initial hamza, a fatha on the kaf, and includes the letters ya and nun, as recorded by Ibn Makula, 1/108.