allāh ibn Muḥammad. Realising that neither of them would slip away, they made no admission at all. Nāzūk then executed the two men, dispatched their heads to Caliph al-Muqtadir in a small casket, and had their bodies thrown into the river.

Judge Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Bahlūl, after Ibn al-Furāt had been deposed from his third vizierate, recited:
“Say to this vizier a word of truth—
advice poured out in the fullest measure:
You have worn the office thrice upon thrice,
and an irrevocable divorce is final at the third!”

Al-Muḥassin’s neck was struck after many kinds of torture on the thirteenth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 312 AH. His head was thrown down in front of his father, who was horrified; then the father too was killed, and both heads were cast into the Euphrates. The vizier was seventy-one years and some months old; al-Muḥassin was thirty-three.

His nephew—the consummate vizier:

263 – Abū al-Fatḥ al-Faḍl ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Furāt*

Better known as Ibn Ḥinzābah—his mother, a Roman concubine, bore that name—he was an accomplished scribe, devout and upright. Al-Muqtadir appointed him vizier in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 320 AH, and he remained in office until al-Muqtadir was killed. When al-Qāhir succeeded, he placed the state bureaus under his charge. Under al-Rāḍī he was first made governor of Syria; later, while still residing in Aleppo, al-Rāḍī granted him the vizierate in 325 AH. He reached Baghdad and served for a period, but when he saw affairs in turmoil and Ibn Rāʾiq holding sway, he tempted Ibn Rāʾiq with the promise of forwarding to him the revenues of Egypt and Syria.