al-Wazir al-Muhallabi

الوزير المهلبي

Mu'izz al-Dawla's vizier; when the curses the Shi'a wrote on the mosque doors were erased he counselled writing instead 'God curse the wrongdoers of the Prophet ﷺ's house' — Mu'awiya's curse alone remaining explicit 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Muhallabi, vizier of Mu'izz al-Dawla. Al-Suyuti says that after what the Shi'a had written of cursing on the doors of the mosques was erased, he advised Mu'izz al-Dawla to write in its place: "May God curse the wrongdoers against the family of the Messenger of God", and that they only expressed the curse on Mu'awiya. 2

His coming to Baghdad

Ibn al-Athir relates that he came to Baghdad before Mu'izz al-Dawla, met Ibn Shirzad in the place where he was hiding, and then met al-Mustakfi. Al-Mustakfi showed his pleasure at the coming of Mu'izz al-Dawla, and informed him that he had hidden from the Turks so that they would scatter, and the affair would come to Mu'izz al-Dawla without fighting. 3

The year of his death is not set out here and needs an additional source.

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The first 'Ashura mourning and Ghadir festival in Baghdad

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أحمد بن بويه معز الدولة· The first 'Ashura mourning and Ghadir festival in Baghdad

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 619
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.619
  3. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p.336
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أحمد بن بويه معز الدولة

The Daylamite Ahmad ibn Buya; he entered Baghdad, was invested as Mu'izz al-Dawla — Imad and Rukn al-Dawla his brothers, all three titles on the coinage — the first Daylamite to hold Iraq. He sequestered the caliph at five thousand dirhams a day, patronised wrestlers and swimmers till men swam cooking meat in pots on their arms, then dragged al-Mustakfi from his throne, blinded him and set up al-Muti'.