al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah Abd Allah ibn al-Qadir

Al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, Abu Ja'far Abd Allah ibn al-Qadir, was the Abbasid caliph from 422 to 467 AH. Al-Basasiri seized him in 450 AH and imprisoned him at 'Ana; when he returned he forgave everyone who had hurt him and kept to fasting and night prayer.

Al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, Abu Ja'far Abd Allah ibn al-Qadir, Abbasid caliph from 422 to 467 AH. He was born mid-Dhu al-Qa'da 391 AH to an Armenian umm walad named Badr al-Duja, or Qatr al-Nada. Al-Suyuti reports from Ibn al-Athir that he was handsome and fine-faced, devout, pious, ascetic and learned, strong in certainty, much in almsgiving, and given to justice and kindness. Al-Basasiri seized him in 450 AH and imprisoned him at 'Ana — he wrote a letter that reached Mecca and was hung in the Kaaba. When he returned home he slept only on his prayer mat, kept to fasting and night prayer, and forgave everyone who had hurt him; he recovered nothing of what was plundered from his palace except at a price, calling them things they had laid up with God, and no instrument of amusement was found in his palace.

Al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, Abu Ja'far Abd Allah ibn al-Qadir, Abbasid caliph from 422 to 467 AH. He was born in mid-Dhu al-Qa'da 391 AH, his mother an Armenian umm walad named Badr al-Duja, or Qatr al-Nada. Al-Suyuti reports from Ibn al-Athir that he was handsome and fine-faced, devout, pious, ascetic and learned, strong in certainty, much in almsgiving, and given to justice and kindness. Al-Basasiri seized him in 450 AH and imprisoned him at 'Ana; he wrote a letter that reached Mecca and was hung in the Kaaba. When he returned home he slept only on his prayer mat, kept to fasting and night prayer, and forgave everyone who had hurt him; he recovered nothing of what was plundered from his palace except at a price, saying they were things they had laid up with God, and no instrument of amusement was found in his palace.