Dhu'l-Sa'adatayn Ibn Fasatanjas

The vizier Dhu'l-Sa'adat Abu'l-Faraj Ibn Fasatanjas; he was vizier to Abu Kalijar in Fars and to him at Baghdad when he entered it in 436 — a man of surpassing suppleness, fine in verse and in chancery prose. ²

It is famous of him that a witness of Ahwaz wrote to him that so-and-so had died leaving fifty thousand Maghribi dinars, property worth fifty thousand more, and an eight-month-old son — asking whether the vizier saw fit to advance a loan until the child came of age. He wrote on the back of the slip an answer holding that wealth, child and deceased belong to God and the petitioner accursed, and that they had no need of orphans' money. He was imprisoned in the fortress of Bani Wudam at Jundisabur eleven months; then Abu Kalijar ordered him killed in Ramadan 440, aged fifty-one. ²