Deposition of al-Ta'i' and Accession of al-Qadir

In 381 AH the caliph al-Ta'i was seized. Al-Suyuti says the reason was that he had imprisoned a man of the intimate circle of Baha' al-Dawla. Baha' al-Dawla came while al-Ta'i was sitting in the portico with a sword girded on, kissed the ground and sat on the chair. His companions advanced and pulled al-Ta'i from his couch, and the Daylam crowded upon him and wrapped him in a cloak. ²

Baha' al-Dawla wrote a document deposing al-Ta'i himself and stating that he had handed over the matter to al-Qadir billah, and the notables and nobles bore witness to it. It was on the nineteenth of Sha'ban. Al-Qadir was sent for to attend, and was in al-Bataiha. ²

Al-Ta'i remained honoured in the house of al-Qadir until he died on the night of the Feast of Breaking the Fast in 393 AH. Al-Qadir prayed over him, the notables followed his bier, and al-Sharif al-Radi composed an elegy for him. ²

Al-Suyuti relates that the awe of the caliphate fell in the days of al-Ta'i, to the point that the poets satirised him, and he describes him as harshly deviant toward the family of Abu Talib. This is al-Suyuti's description. ²