whose mother was Nasim, known as Sitt al-Sadah ⦗1⦘, a dark-skinned woman from among the finest concubines ⦗2⦘. He fell ill with al-tarāqī, an affliction of the throat; others said a boil appeared ⦗3⦘ in his throat, and he died on the night of Sunday, the second of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year ⦗4⦘, at the age of sixty-six, less twenty-eight days. His caliphate lasted twenty-four years, three months, and sixteen ⦗5⦘ days. He was buried ⦗6⦘ in the Caliphal Residence, and was later transferred to the royal cemetery ⦗7⦘.

He was high-minded, brave, and forward-going: he personally supervised affairs, witnessed battles, and lavished great sums on the chroniclers. He was the first ⦗8⦘, from the beginning of the Daylamite era to his own time, to wield sole authority over Iraq independent of the sultans ⦗9⦘; he consolidated the caliphate and exercised command over the army and the emirs.

In several respects he resembled his father: his sickness with al-tarāqī, his death in Rabiʿ al-Awwal, and the fact that Sultan Muhammad Shah died three months before him; likewise ⦗10⦘ his father al-Mustazhir had been preceded by Sultan Mahmud by three months ⦗11⦘. Al-Muqtafi ⦗12⦘ also died one year after the flooding of Baghdad, and so did the other one ⦗13⦘.

ʿAfif the copyist said: “I saw in a dream someone saying, ‘When three letters khāʾ coincide, al-Muqtafi will die,’ meaning the year 555.”

The caliphate of al-Mustanjid ⦗14⦘ bi-Allah, Abū al-Muẓaffar Yusuf ibn al-Muqtafi.

When his father died, as we have mentioned, he was pledged allegiance as caliph on the morning of Sunday, the second of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year.