282 – Ibn Hubayra, Abū al-Muẓaffar Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-Shaybānī
The consummate vizier, eminent imam, erudite scholar, and just statesman; ʿAwn al-Dīn, the Right Hand of the Caliphate—Abū al-Muẓaffar Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Hubayra ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Jahm al-Shaybānī, al-Dūrī, the Iraqi, the Ḥanbalī, and author of several works.

Birth: in the village of Banī Awqara in the district of Dūr (1)—one of the regions of ʿIrāq—in the year 499 AH.

He entered Baghdad in his youth, pursued learning, sat with jurists, studied jurisprudence under Abū al-Ḥusayn, the son of the judge Abū Yaʿlā, and mixed with men of letters. He heard hadiths, recited the Qurʾān in the seven canonical readings, engaged with the Islamic sciences, excelled in Arabic, and mastered the school’s doctrine, grammar, and prosody. A follower of the early generations in creed, poverty later constrained him to seek employment in the chancery; he advanced through the ranks until he became supervisor of the treasury, then head of the Dīwān al-Zimām (2) under al-Muqtafī li-Amr Allāh. In 544 AH he was appointed vizier for that caliph, continued in office, and afterwards served as vizier for his son al-Mustanjid.

He was devout, righteous, devoted to worship, intelligent, dignified, humble, of sound judgment, and benevolent