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Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Qadir

أبو القاسم ابن القادر بالله

c. June 1027 CE · Jumada II 418 AH

Baghdad

Abu al-Qasim, son of the caliph al-Qadir bi-llah, died on the night of Saturday, with one night of Jumada II 418 remaining. His brother Abu Ja'far (later al-Qa'im) led the prayer over him, and people walked with his bier from the head of the bridge to the cemetery of al-Rusafa; Abu al-Hasan ibn Isa ibn al-Muqtadir led the prayer over him again, and the drums of the state fell silent for twenty days 1.

Depth

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Roles
Politician
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli · Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani

In space

Baghdad

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Overview

Abu'l-Qasim, son of the caliph al-Qadir bi'llah; he died on the eve of Saturday, the last night of Jumada II 418 — his brother Abu Ja'far (afterwards al-Qa'im) prayed over him, the people walked with his bier from the bridge's head to the Rusafa mausoleum, Abu'l-Hasan b. 'Isa b. al-Muqtadir repeated the prayer over him, and the state's drums fell silent for twenty days. 1

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Child of
al-Qadir bi-llah Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn al-Muqtadir
Sibling of
al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah Abd Allah ibn al-Qadir
Buried in
Baghdad

People and things also explored

The death of al-Qadir and the accession of al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah, 422· The public declaration of al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah as heir, 421· The reading of the Qadiri Creed in the Dar al-Khilafa· The diwan manifesto impugning the Ubaydid genealogy· The Baghdad Attestation on Fatimid Lineage· The Baratha Mosque Affair in 420· The battle of al-Basasiri and the sermon for the Ubaydi al-Mustansir in Baghdad· Riot at the funeral of Bint Abi Nuh and the plunder of the Dar al-Rum church

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.376
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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.