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al-Fath ibn Khaqan

الفتح بن خاقان

Al-Mutawakkil's vizier, slain with him in the night-murder by five Turks on 5 Shawwal 247 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Al-Fath ibn Khaqan, vizier of al-Mutawakkil. 2

His killing

He was killed with al-Mutawakkil on the night of al-Mutawakkil's killing, at the hands of five Turks, on the fifth of Shawwal in 247 AH. 2

Al-Mas'udi relates that when Bagir and the Turks attacked al-Mutawakkil, those present scattered, and none remained to defend him except him. 3

Another report

Al-Mas'udi says that he and al-Mutawakkil disputed the interpretation of a verse, so al-Mutawakkil sent al-Mubarrad to the governor of Basra, Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Hashimi. 4

His life before the vizierate needs an additional source.

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Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 544
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.544
  3. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.506
  4. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.476
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al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses

In al-Baladhuri: after Khalafun rose a man called al-Mufarraj — one copy: al-Mufarrikh — ibn Sallam who opened twenty-four fortresses and seized them; he wrote the postmaster in Egypt his news and that he deemed the absentee prayer unlawful for himself and the Muslims with him, asking the imam to contract him over his district and appoint him, to leave the state of usurpers — and he built a congregational mosque. Then his companions mutinied and killed him; Sawran — also read Sudan — succeeded and sent his envoy to al-Mutawakkil asking patent and letter of appointment, but al-Mutawakkil died before the envoy reached him, and al-Muntasir died whose caliphate was six months; al-Musta'in Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Mu'tasim ordered his Maghreb agent Utamish — the caliph's mawla — to contract it for him, but before his envoy could leave Samarra Utamish was killed and Wasif the caliph's mawla took the district and contracted and dispatched it.