He narrated from Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi. Reporting from him was Abu al-Fadl al-Tamimi (1).

He lived almost as one subdued under Ibn Buwayh, the deputy (2) of Iraq, who fixed for him a daily allowance of only one hundred dinars (3).

Prices in Baghdad reached an extreme level. Ibn al-Jawzi relates that one kur of flour was purchased for Muʿizz al-Dawla at the price of twenty thousand dirhams (4).

I say: that equals seventeen qintars by the Damascene measure, for one kur is thirty-four kāra (5), and each kāra is fifty ratls.

The ruler of Mosul, Nasir al-Dawla, fought Muʿizz al-Dawla; they met at ʿUqbara, where Nasir al-Dawla prevailed and camped on the eastern side of the Tigris. His fortunes then collapsed and he fled; the Daylamite troops unleashed the sword and pillage in the city, and women were taken captive.

Al-Muṭīʿ was able to establish himself briefly. Later Ibn Buwayh and the lord of Mosul concluded a peace, a step resented by the Turks on whose strength the Mosul ruler had depended; they resolved to kill him, but he fought them and scattered them (6). Abu Jaʿfar ibn Shirzad fled to him, whereupon he blinded him and threw him into prison (7).

In that same year—namely 336 AH—Muʿizz al-Dawla and al-Muṭīʿ set out for Basra.