It was also said that he was extremely frugal with himself: if someone presented him with a turban-cloth, he would cut it into three separate turbans (1).
Another report relates that he once sat on the steps of the Nilometer (2) scanning the metres of a poem. A simpleton overheard him and cried out, “This man is casting a spell on the Nile so that its level will fall!” The fellow then kicked him, hurled him into the river, and he drowned (3) in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 338 AH.
223 – ʿImād al-Dawlah ʿAlī ibn Būyah ibn Fannākhsarū al-Daylamī *
The great sovereign, ʿImād al-Dawlah, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Būyah ibn Fannākhsarū al-Daylamī.
Ruler of the provinces of Fars and brother to the two kings—Muʿizz al-Dawlah Aḥmad (4) and Rukn al-Dawlah al-Ḥasan (5)—ʿImād al-Dawlah was the first to seize the realm, having previously been one of the foremost Daylamite commanders.
Their father, Būyah, had been a fisherman (6), yet affairs advanced through his sons until they came to rule the land. After ʿImād al-Dawlah, power passed to his brother’s son, ʿAḍud al-Dawlah ibn Rukn al-Dawlah (7).