261 – Ibn Khāqān: ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Khāqānī*
The grand vizier, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh, son of the vizier Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad, son of the vizier Abū al-Ḥasan ʿUbayd Allāh b. Yaḥyā b. Khāqān al-Khāqānī, hailed from a family of viziers. He was noted for a sharp, eloquent tongue, cultured manners, elegant penmanship, generosity and munificence, and immense wealth and property.
He assumed the vizierate for al-Muqtadir in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 312 AH, on the recommendation of Muʾnis al-Khādim. An experienced statesman, well versed in affairs, he was nevertheless arrested eighteen months later; a decree was issued against him, he fell ill, and he died in the month of Rajab, 314 AH.
262 – Ibn al-Furāt: ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-ʿĀqūlī**
The grand vizier, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Abī Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Furāt al-ʿĀqūlī, the scribe.
Al-Ṣūlī relates that their grandfather purchased estates in al-ʿĀqūl and settled there, hence the family’s attribution to that locale.
Ibn al-Furāt directed the government bureaus in the time of al-Muktafī. When al-Muqtadir took the throne and appointed al-ʿAbbās b. al-Ḥasan as vizier, Ibn al-Furāt retained his post, and events then unfolded.