al-Fayd ibn Abi Salih

الفيض بن أبي صالح

c. 789 CE · 173 AH

Abu Ja'far al-Fayd ibn Abi Salih, vizier of the Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi. When al-Mahdi imprisoned Ya'qub ibn Dawud, he entrusted the vizierate to Abu Ja'far al-Fayd ibn Abi Salih; when he died, al-Rabi' ibn Yunus took the vizierate after him 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Abu Hafs al-Kabir · Abu Nasr al-Tamar · Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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