In 321 AH Shaghab, the mother of al-Muqtadir, passed away.

The eunuch (1) Muʾnis, nicknamed (2) al-Muẓaffar, was put to death. He was a man of gallantry, commanding presence, courage, and keen strategy; he lived ninety years and had commanded armies for sixty of them.

In 322 AH the Daylamites entered Isfahan. Among their commanders was ʿAlī ibn Būyah (3). He broke away from Mardāwīj (4), fought Muḥammad ibn Yāqūt, routed him, and took possession of Fars. His father had been a poor fisherman.

Maḥmūd al-Iṣfahānī said: The reason they deposed al-Qāhir was his vicious conduct and his shedding of blood. He refused to abdicate, so they gouged out his eyes until they burst (5).

During his reign there emerged Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAzāqir al-Shalmaghānī, who in Baghdad claimed divinity and asserted that he could revive the dead. Ibn Muqla championed him and denied the charges reported against him, but al-Shalmaghānī was later executed, and because of him al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Qāsim and Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Abī ʿAwn al-Anbārī—the author of al-Ajwiba al-Muskita (6)—were also put to death; both men had professed belief in al-Shalmaghānī (7).

Al-Qāhir’s children were: Abū al-Qāsim, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad (8), Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad, Fāṭimah, ʿĀtikah, and Umāmah.