and then he prayed, “O Allah, grant me my harvest in this world, and allot me no share in the Hereafter.” His prayer was answered.
Muḥriz the scribe said: “Sulaymān had a young servant to whom he was deeply attached, becoming altogether infatuated with him (1). When his wife kept pressing him about it, he dismissed the boy.”
al-Ṣūlī states: “Al-Muwaffaq ruined him and confiscated his property, yet nothing of what he suspected was actually found. Further calamities befell him, and he died in prison in the month of Ṣafar, in the year 272 AH, during the vizierate of Ṣāʿid ibn Makhlad.
He was the father of the vizier ʿUbayd Allah, the grandfather of the vizier al-Qāsim ibn ʿUbayd Allah, and the great-grandfather of the vizier al-Ḥusayn.
- The Vile ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAbdī
He is the tyrant of the Zanj, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (2) al-ʿAbdī of the tribe of ʿAbd al-Qays. He lied and claimed descent from Zayd ibn ʿAlī the Alid. An astrologer, a roadside charlatan, quick-witted, a Harūrī (3), crafty, devious, and unrestrained, he espoused the doctrine of the most depraved of the Khārijites, all the while keeping it hidden