Ibn Hajib al-Nu'man

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'Ali ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Ibrahim ibn Bayan, Abu'l-Hasan; born 340; he was katib for al-Ta'i' then for al-Qadir from Shawwal 386 — writing for two caliphs for forty years; his father had served in Abu 'Umar al-Mahalla's vizierate; he was eloquent. ¹

His death and successor

He died in Rajab 421 and was buried at Barakat Zalzal, then moved to the Quraysh cemeteries in 425; his son Abu'l-Fadl succeeded him in the writing office eight months, then was dismissed for want of substance. ¹

The reading of the Qadiri Creed in the Dar al-Khilafa

On Thursday 17 Muharram 409 a book setting out the doctrines of Ahl al-Sunna was read in procession in the Dar al-Khilafa at Baghdad. It stated the creed of the Imam al-Qadir bi'llah, and it was said of it: 'whoever says the Qur'an is created is an unbeliever whose blood may be shed.' al-Qadir confirmed the doctrine of the people of hadith and required people to hold to it in his correspondence and assemblies. In 433 the Qadiri Creed was read in full in the diwan of the Dar al-Mulk, in the presence of the vizier, the shaykhs and the judges. In its margin is the hand of the scholar Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Umar al-Qazwini, attesting that he heard all of it in 433, that he concurred in it with the Imam of the Muslims al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah, that it is binding proof against whoever shares his faith, and that he holds to the creed it contains. It is the loftiest thing the state of al-Qa'im published in matters of creed.

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The reading of the Qadiri Creed in the Dar al-Khilafa