His sons were: Muḥammad al-Rāḍī, Ibrāhīm al-Muttaqī (1), Isḥāq, al-Muṭīʿ, Faḍl (2), Ismāʿīl, ʿĪsā, ʿAbbās, and Ṭalḥa.

Thābit ibn Sinān, his physician, said: “Al-Muqtadir squandered a little over seventy million dinars.”

When al-Muqtadir was slain, his head was brought to Muʾnis, who repented and wept, saying, “By Allah, we shall all be killed.” He first resolved to place the Caliph’s son on the throne, but they finally agreed upon his brother al-Qāhir (3).

25 – Muʾnis the senior chamberlain, known as al-Muẓaffar al-Muʿtaḍidī*
One of the palace servants who rose to the rank of kings. He was a fair-skinned cavalryman, brave, an able administrator, and exceedingly shrewd.

He was commissioned to fight the ʿUbaydid forces of the Maghrib, and al-Muqtadir appointed him governor of Damascus. Later events led him to take up arms against al-Muqtadir; on that day the Caliph was killed, and Muʾnis was stricken with remorse, saying, “All of us will be killed.” (4)

Most of Muʾnis’s troops that day were Berbers; one of them hurled his spear at the Caliph and did not miss. (5)

Muʾnis then installed al-Qāhir billāh in the caliphate (6). When