al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Mansur ibn al-Aziz

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Mansur ibn al-Aziz bi-Allah, the sixth of the rulers of the Ubaydid state according to al-Suyuti. He took power after his father and was titled al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. ³

Al-Suyuti says he killed a group of notables, and ordered the cursing of the Companions to be written on the doors of the mosques and the streets. He ordered dogs killed, and forbade some foods including fish without scales. He demolished the Church of the Resurrection and the churches of Egypt, and then gave permission for them to be rebuilt. He prevented women from going out by night and by day. ³

Al-Suyuti says that he was killed at Hulwan, a village in Egypt, in 411 AH. ⁴

Al-Maqrizi says that al-Hakim disappeared on the two nights left of Shawwal 411 AH, at the age of thirty-six years and seven months, after a caliphate of twenty-five years and a month. ²

He describes him as one who occupied himself with the ancient sciences and studied the stars, set up an observatory, and took a house on al-Muqattam where he cut himself off from people. He also took the Dar al-Ilm in Cairo, the house described above under Dar al-Hikma. ^{2 5}

He calls him "a shedder of blood, who killed countless people", and says the khutba was given for him from the pulpits of Egypt, Syria, Ifriqiya and the Hijaz. ²

Al-Maqrizi reports, from al-Musabbihi, that in Muharram 415 AH a man of the Banu al-Husayn who had risen in Upper Egypt was seized. He confessed to killing al-Hakim with three others, and showed a piece of his scalp and a piece of the cloth he had worn. He then killed himself. Al-Maqrizi holds this to be the sound account, and says the report that his sister killed him is not right. ^{2 6}

This is an account of al-Suyuti's report alone, which is one of the Sunni sources. The academic view and the view of the Isma'ilis of him still need to be added.