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Ubaydallah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan

عبيد الله بن يحيى بن خاقان

263 AH

Al-Mu'tamid's vizier, of the Khaqanid bureaucratic house; on his death in 263 al-Hasan ibn Makhlad was made vizier, but when Musa ibn Bugha advanced Ibn Makhlad fled to Baghdad and Sulayman ibn Wahb took the office 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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al-Mutawakkil appointed him as secretary in the year 233 AH after the dismissal of Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Jarjara'i, and he served as vizier for him until he was killed, according to al-Mas'udi 2.

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al-Mu'tamid ala Allah

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Ibn Kundaj intercepts al-Mu'tamid and confines him, 269· Al-Mu'tamid's succession deed for al-Mufawwid and al-Muwaffaq· Yusuf ibn Tashfin's killing of al-Mutawakkil, lord of Badajoz· The division of the realm between al-Mufawwid and al-Muwaffaq· Sulayman ibn Wahb· al-Mu'tamid ala Allah

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 120
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.476
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Ibn Kundaj intercepts al-Mu'tamid and confines him, 269

In 269, al-Mu'tamid's fear of his brother al-Muwaffaq peaked — he corresponded with his Egypt deputy Ahmad ibn Tulun and slipped out of Samarra for Damascus. Al-Muwaffaq sent Ishaq ibn Kundaj, who caught him between Mosul and Haditha, escorted him back and confined him to Ibn al-Khasib's house under five hundred guards. Ibn Kundaj received khil'as, money and the title Dhu'l-Sayfayn, Sa'id ibn Makhlad Dhu'l-Wizaratayn — and al-Mu'tamid lost all binding and loosing, the first caliph ever cowed, sequestered and warded.