In 304 AH Ibn al-Jarrāḥ (1) was removed from the vizierate, and in Azerbaijan Yūsuf ibn Abī al-Sāj rose in rebellion; after a series of battles Muʾnis captured him (2).

In 305 AH envoys of the Byzantine emperor arrived asking for a truce. The palaces of the caliphate were lavishly decorated, and al-Muqtadir reviewed his troops in full dress: they numbered one hundred and sixty thousand. The palace attendants were seven thousand, the chamberlains seven hundred, the curtains thirty-eight thousand, and there were one hundred chained lions. In the corridors stood ten thousand gilded coats of mail (3)(4).

In 306 AH the bīmāristān of al-Muqtadir’s mother was opened; seven hundred thousand dinars were spent on it (5)(6).

Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥamdān was slaughtered in prison, while his brother Abū al-Hayjāʾ was set free.

Ibn al-Furāt, who had been restored to the vizierate, was arrested once more, and Ḥāmid ibn al-ʿAbbās became vizier. He arrived from Wāsiṭ with four hundred armed mamluks in his retinue (7).

Al-Mādarāʾī was placed in charge of Egypt and Syria; the annual revenue assessed to him, apart from the soldiers’ stipends, was three million dinars. The Lady, the mother of al-Muqtadir, assumed full authority over all affairs. She ordered the stewardess Thumal to sit in the Dār al-ʿAdl and hear petitions. Thumal accordingly sat, with the judges and notable men in attendance, and she herself signed the decrees (8).

In 307 AH al-Muqtadir appointed Nāzūk governor of Damascus, and the Qarmaṭians entered