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Dhakhirat al-Din ibn al-Qa'im

ذخيرة الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن القائم

c. December 1055 CE · Dhu al-Qa'da 447 AH

Son of the caliph al-Qa'im — circumcised in Sha'ban 440 and named on the minbars as heir apparent; he died in Dhu'l-Qa'da 447 while still young, to great mourning: the Ra'is al-Ru'asa' held condolence in the Dar al-Salam portico, mourners rent their garments, the bier was set behind a curtain while the caliph prayed over him with four takbirs, and the drums fell silent in both the caliph's palace and the sultan's pavilions 1.

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Ruler
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abu al-Fath Abd al-Baqi al-Haddad al-Hanbali al-Faradi · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli · Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani

Summary

Dhakhirat al-Din, son of the caliph al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah; in Sha'ban 440 he was circumcised by the caliph's order and named on the minbars as heir apparent. 2

Death

He died in Dhu'l-Qa'da 447, well-bred, and the calamity was great: the ra'is al-ru'asa sat for condolences in a portico of Dar al-Salam's wing, the people were ordered to tear their garments and disorder their turbans, a pavilion was pitched across the portico with the bier behind it — the caliph came out and prayed over him with the people behind the pavilion, pronouncing four takbirs — and the drum was silenced at the caliphal palace through the days of mourning. 2

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

People and things also explored

The death of al-Qadir and the accession of al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah, 422· The diwan manifesto impugning the Ubaydid genealogy· The battle of al-Basasiri and the sermon for the Ubaydi al-Mustansir in Baghdad· Marriage of the caliph's daughter to Tughrul Beg· Death of Abu Kalijar and investiture of al-Malik al-Rahim· The death of al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah and the accession of al-Muqtadi· The public declaration of al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah as heir, 421· The return of al-Qa'im from Haditha to Baghdad

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.479,507
  2. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.479
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The death of al-Qadir and the accession of al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah, 422

The caliph al-Qadir bi'llah died on the night of Monday 11 Dhu'l-Hijja 422, aged eighty-six years, ten months and twenty-one days, having reigned forty-one years and three months, a span no caliph before him had reached. The doors were shut; then al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah came out at the time of 'asr, led the people in the maghrib prayer, prayed over his father with four takbirs, and sat in the Dar al-Shajara in a shirt and mantle. The people gave him bay'a, first among them al-Sharif al-Murtada, and on the next day Abu Ahmad al-Hasan ibn Isa ibn al-Muqtadir came and gave bay'a too. The Turks clamoured over the bay'a money; when a Hashimite killed a Turk, a signed decree of the caliph was issued on the matter, and it was settled that the bay'a be levied at three million dinars. Among his well-known displays of tact, he put up a caravanserai, a garden and a heap of goods for sale to meet it. He gave titles to the viziers and chamberlains and arranged the offices of state.