Abu Shuja' the Monk

Abu Shuja' Ibn Qasas, the monk on whose hand the confiscations of al-Amir's reign appeared; at the start of his affair he served Wali al-Dawla Abu'l-Barakat b. Yahya b. Abi'l-Layth, then attached himself to al-Amir, offering him a hundred thousand dinars to mulct a group of Christians — his hand was let loose on them, and the matter cascaded until it covered all the chiefs, judges and katibs of Egypt. ¹

He rode with saddles decked in gold and silver, and sat in the vestibule of the preachers' robing-hall at the old mosque of Egypt summoning people to confiscation — until al-Miqdad, governor of Egypt, killed him and he was crucified at the bridge. ¹