ملخص الجهاز:
A year, more or less, after this1 the vizier Ibn Baqiyyah came to Ahwaz with 'Izz al-daulah, and arrested the general Bukhtakin Azadruyah, the Turks, and Sahl b.
2 For a time Sahl remained in the custody of Abu Ahmad (al-Dulji), then he ('Izz al-daulah ?) removed him from his power and he was brought to Baghdad.
Bishr revolted and entered Ahwaz with the army advocating the sovereignty of 'Izz al-daulah ;4 Abu Ahmad joined them, out of fear for his life and fear of Sahl.
Bishr was arrested by him and brought to Baghdad before 'Izz al-daulah, who bestowed a robe of honour on Abu Ahmad,3 whom he sent to Ahwaz as governor of it and its districts, so that Ahwaz became like something " committed to his trust ; " for which i10 one else was suited, and where no one but himself was known when something was required.
One day I heard Abu Muhammad al-Muhallabi sav with reference to a discussion on munificence which had taken place in his house, when a number of people were quoted : It will conceal those vices which calamities would reveal.
he tribe, who came to the court of Mu'izz al-daulah and was honourably entertained by him, as follows, I saw an 'Uqailite, he said, who had all over his back incisions like those made by a cupper, only larger.
" I heard, he said, one of the chief clerks in Baghdad recount after someone who had told to him, how the latter had heard Abu'l-Hasan b.