Sharaf al-Dawlah seized control of Baghdad and arrested his brother Ṣamṣām (1).
In 381, al-Ṭāʾiʿ was deposed from the caliphate, and al-Qādir (2) was installed in his place.
In 386, during the month of Ramadan, al-ʿAzīz died in Bilbays (3) while in the bathhouse, succumbing to colic. He was forty-two years old and some months. His son al-Ḥākim—the heretic (4)—succeeded him.
70 – al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allah, Manṣūr ibn al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Muʿizz
He was the ruler of Egypt, al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allah, Abū ʿAlī Manṣūr ibn al-ʿAzīz Nizār ibn al-Muʿizz Maʿad ibn al-Manṣūr Ismāʿīl ibn al-Qāʾim Muḥammad ibn al-Mahdī—the ʿUbaydī Egyptian Rāfiḍī, indeed an Ismāʿīlī zindīq who arrogated to himself divinity.
He was born in 375.
They placed him on the throne after his father when he was only eleven years old. He later recounted:
“My father embraced me, kissed me while he was naked, and said, ‘Go and play, for I am well.’ Then he died. Barjawan (5) came to me while I was up in a sycamore-fig tree in the courtyard.”