147 – Muhannā ibn Māniʿ ibn Ḥudhaytha ibn Faḍl ibn Rabīʿa
Emir of the Arab tribes of Syria, born to a household of successive emirs; he was the father of Emir ʿĪsā and the grandfather of the King of the Arabs, Muhannā ibn ʿĪsā.
Died: 646 AH.
148 – Ibn Raʾīs al-Ruʾasāʾ, al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Baghdādī **
The erudite scholar and philosopher, Abū al-Fatḥ (1) al-Mubārak, son of the vizier Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Hibat Allah ibn al-Muẓaffar, grandson of Raʾīs al-Ruʾasāʾ ibn al-Muslima of Baghdad.
Born: in Rajab, 560 AH.
He studied under Yaḥyā ibn Thābit and Tajannī al-Wahbāniyya.
Those who received authorization (ijāza) from him include Abū Naṣr ibn al-Shīrāzī and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bijjadī.
He taught the “sciences of the ancients” in his own residence and excelled in geometry, medicine, poetry, and belles-lettres.
He held the office of Ṣadriyya of the Treasury (2) for a few months in 605 AH, and was removed from office,
(*) Al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, Aya Sofya MS 3013, vol. 20, marginal note on folio 72 in the author’s own handwriting.
(* *) Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh, 12/118; Talkhis Majmaʿ al-Adab, 4/1, entry 638; al-Hawadith al-Jamiʿa, 227; Al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, Aya Sofya MS 3013, vol. 20, fols. 63–64; al-ʿAsjad al-Masbuk by al-Malik al-Ashraf al-Ghassani, 560. His honorific was ʿAdud al-Din, the same as his father’s.
(1) In Ibn al-Saʿi’s al-Jamiʿ al-Mukhtasar and in Talkhis Majmaʿ al-Adab he is called Abu al-Futuh.
(2) The term makhzan (state treasury) corresponds roughly to a modern Ministry of Finance. Taj al-Din Ibn al-Saʿi records under the events of 605 AH in al-Jamiʿ al-Mukhtasar: “On Tuesday the tenth of Shaʿban, ʿAdud al-Din Abu al-Futuh, son of the vizier Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Raʾis al-Ruʾasaʾ, was appointed to the sadria of the well-ordered treasury, transferred from the distinguished Royal Ceremonies Office; he received the robe of investiture, and the appointment was mediated by ʿIzz al-Din Najah al-Sharabi” (p. 264).