76 – Abū Bishr al-Asadī, ʿUmar ibn Aktham ibn Aḥmad
Chief Judge (qāḍī al-quḍāt). His full name is Abū Bishr ʿUmar ibn Aktham ibn Aḥmad ibn the judge Ḥayyān ibn Bishr al-Asadī, a Shāfiʿī.
Al-Khaṭīb remarked: “No Shāfiʿī had ever held the Baghdad judicature before him save the judge Abū al-Sāʾib.”
He died in 357 AH. He belonged to a family distinguished for judicial service and learning. He passed away in his eighties, and after him the office went to Ibn Maʿrūf.

77 – al-Zāhī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq ibn Khalaf
An accomplished, polished poet, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq ibn Khalaf al-Baghdādī.
He died young, in Jumādā al-Ākhirah 352 AH.
He composed panegyrics for the vizier al-Muhallabī and for Sayf al-Dawlah, and he is the author of the lines:
“They lifted their veils as full moons appear,
then drew their face-covers, slim crescent-clear;
They swayed like supple branches in the breeze,
and turned away like fleet, alert gazelles.
Upon their throats pearls glittered, stars made bright—
set as co-wives contending for men’s hearts.”

78 – al-Qarārīṭī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin
The eminent vizier, Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin.