Ibn Umm Shaybān, the judge.
Thereafter he came to be known as al-Shaykh al-Fāḍil (1).
In that same year the ʿUbaydid (Fatimid) daʿwa was proclaimed in the Two Holy Sanctuaries on behalf of al-Muʿizz (2).
Meanwhile the plague of banditry in Baghdad grew severe: the thieves rode on horseback, levied protection money, and styled themselves “commanders” (3).
Later al-Muṭīʿ set out with his son—the caliph al-Ṭāʾiʿ li-Allāh—to Wāsiṭ, where he died in Muḥarram 364 AH, three months after his deposition (4). He was sixty-three years old—may Allah have mercy on him. His caliphate had lasted thirty years, minus a few months.
During his lifetime the ruler of al-Andalus, al-Nāṣir al-Marwānī, assumed the title “Commander of the Faithful” (5), declaring: “I have a better claim to this title than a caliph who lives under the authority of the Banū Būyah.” Al-Nāṣir spoke truly, for he was a valiant, courageous, politically astute, and awe-inspiring leader with celebrated campaigns to his credit, fit indeed for the caliphate. Yet al-Muʿizz the ʿUbaydid (6), an Ismaʿili by creed, was far mightier and ruled far broader realms, holding sway over the Two Sanctuaries, Egypt, Syria, and the Maghrib.
- al-Ṭāʾiʿ li-Allāh ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Muṭīʿ li-Allāh ibn al-Muqtadir
The caliph Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Karīm, son of al-Muṭīʿ li-Allāh al-Faḍl, son of al-Muqtadir Jaʿfar ibn al-Muʿtaḍid the ʿAbbāsid. His mother was a slave-concubine.