Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah

أبو جعفر محمد بن القاسم بن عبيد الله

Ibn Muqla's own counsellor, secretly wooed by al-Qahir with the promise of office and made vizier over him in Sha'ban 321 1.

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Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah, one of the companions and counsellors of Ibn Muqla. 1

The vizierate

Al-Qahir wrote to him and promised him the vizierate. Al-Qahir then appointed him vizier at the start of Sha'ban 321 AH, after Ibn Muqla was dismissed, and gave him a robe of honour. 1

Notes for researchers

  • His birth and death dates and the details of his vizierate need an additional source.

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 187-191
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