حامد بن العباس

Hamid ibn al-Abbas, an Abbasid vizier in the time of al-Muqtadir. The sources differ in what they stress about him: his farming of the land of al-Sawad and the high prices, his vizierate, and his part in the killing of al-Hallaj. ^{2 3 4}.

Al-Suyuti mentions that he farmed the land of al-Sawad and renewed the unjust levies, so prices rose in Baghdad in 308 AH. The common people rioted and plundering broke out; they burned the bridge, opened the prisons, and stoned the vizier. ².

Al-Mas'udi says that al-Muqtadir invested him with the vizierate on Tuesday, two nights before the end of Jumada al-Akhira 306 AH, and that affairs were entrusted to him, after which he was arrested. ³.

Ibn al-Nadim reports that he held firm for the killing of al-Hallaj and took up the matter. He mentions that the sultan almost released al-Hallaj, but that he was killed and burned at the end of 309 AH, after being given a thousand lashes and having his hands cut off. ⁴.

In Ibn al-Athir, he asked al-Muqtadir to hand al-Hallaj over to him and pressed until he took him. He summoned the two judges and a group of jurists and witnesses and asked their opinion, and they wrote a ruling that his blood was lawful. ⁵.