Mu'ayyad al-Mulk al-Hasan al-Rakji

Al-Hasan al-Rakji; vizier to Musharrif al-Dawla Abu 'Ali ibn Baha' al-Dawla for two years, then dismissed — in his time out of office he was of great standing; when it was said that Wasit, among the greatest cities, had no hospital, he chose a site, made it a maristan, gathered a rich endowment, opened it in the year 13, stocked it with medicines, appointed keepers and physicians and endowed it. ²

He raised Fakhr al-Mulk's confiscated monies without a blow, extracting them gently — among them he decoded the ciphered entries of the treasury register: "the long-bearded Cossack" who held twenty thousand dinars, and "Basra with its funnel" holding thirty thousand; he advised Ibn al-Sa'ibi to work on "a history of the good people," which occasioned Ibn al-Sa'ib's continuation of Sinan's history; he died in 429, near eighty. ²