162 – al-Nawbakhtī, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā *

An erudite polymath, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbakhtī was a Shiʿi philosopher and prolific author. Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Nadīm and Ibn al-Najjār mention him but give no date for his death.

His writings include: al-Ārāʾ (Opinions), al-Diyānāt (Religions), al-Radd ʿalā al-Tanasukhiyya (Refutation of the Transmigrationists), al-Tawḥīd wa Ḥudūth al-ʿĀlam (Monotheism and the Origination of the World), al-Imāma (The Imamate), and other works.⦗1⦘

163 – Ibn Makhlad, Sulaymān ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī **

The eminent vizier Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrāḥ al-Baghdādī.

He first held the vizierate under al-Muqtadir, sharing the office with ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā,⦗2⦘ after which he was dismissed.⦗3⦘ Later, in 324 AH, al-Rāḍī bi-Allāh appointed him vizier; but the fiscal claims against him multiplied, so Ibn Rāʾiq offered to meet the army’s expenses and was granted the post of amīr al-umarāʾ (commander of commanders).

With that, the authority of the vizier’s seat collapsed. Sulaymān therefore asked to be relieved of the ministry after a year, whereupon al-Rāḍī bi-Allāh reinstated him to the vizierate in 328 AH.