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Fatima bint al-Qadir

فاطمة بنت القادر

1056 CE · 448 AH

Daughter of the caliph al-Qadir and sister of al-Qa'im; died in the plague year 448 — her bier and that of the heir Dhakhirat al-Din were carried out together, the caliph prayed over both in the courtyard of the palace and they were borne to Rusafa, with fewer than forty mourners present for the emptiness of the plague-stricken city 1.

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

975100010251050107511001125 c. c. c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abu al-Fath Abd al-Baqi al-Haddad al-Hanbali al-Faradi · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli · Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani

Summary

Fatima, daughter of the caliph al-Qadir and sister of the caliph al-Qa'im; she died in 448, and her bier was brought out with the bier of al-Dhakhira Abu'l-'Abbas b. al-Qa'im. The caliph prayed over them in the Court of Peace while the ra'is al-ru'asa sat with the two biers in the pavilion, and they were borne to Rusafa — no more than forty attended the mourning, the town empty and its people perished of death and want. 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

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· Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Qadir· 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

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.517
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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.