(1) AL MUNTASIR BI'LLAH

(2) 247 -248

وَهْوَ بِذَنْبِهِ ذَمِيْمٌ خَاسِرُ(3)

مُعَـاقَبٌ في مَوْتِـهِ بِعِلَّـةِ(5)

فِيْــــــهِ غُرُوْرٌ بِأَبِيْـــهِ فَـتَـنـَــــــهْ(7)

بَعْدَ أَبِيْـهِ مَلَـكَ المُنْتَصِـرُ

وَلمْ يَدُمْ غَيرَ شُهُوْرٍ سِتَّةِ(4)

وَ عُمْرُهُ سِــتٌّ وَعِشْـــرُوْنَ سَنَــهْ (6)

(1) He is Al Muntasir bi'llah Muhammad Abu Ja'far Muhammad bin Jaafar bin Mohammed al-Mutawakkil Mutassim bin Haroon Rashid bin Mohammed Mehdi Ben Mansour.

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(2) He was acknowledged Caliph after his assassination to his father in Wednesday the 4th of Shawwal  in the years 247a.h (ALbedaia w alnehaia 10/352)(the completed history 6/141) .He died on Sunday, the 25th of Rabii ALAkher in the year 248 a.h. (ALbedaia w alnehaia 10/354)(the completed history 6/148).

 

(3) With no doubt his guilt was the killing of his father for the authority. See footnote in the next poem verse.

 

(4) Ibn Kathir said: There is no dispute that he enjoyed the Caliphate for a term somewhat under six months. Ibn Al-Jarir mentioned that he used to hear from his companions that his succession will stay not more than 6 months because he killed his father as Shiruyah the son of Khusrau the son of Hurmuz, who slew his father, but he did not enjoy the sovereignty for more than six months." And that it happened. . (ALbedaia w alnehaia 10/354) ) Ibn Athir said so. (The completed history 6/148).

 

(5) Ibn Kathir said: in the late of Safar of the year of 248 a.h , Al-Muntasir was sick with the disease that led to his death, he one night saw a

 

When he told his companions about the dream, they advised him to forget about it and enjoy his days by drinking alcoholic liquors; he accepted the advice and kept on this bad attitude till death. People differed in the illness that led to his death, some said a disease in his head so they put medicine drops in his ear that reached the brain and led to death. Others said there was a tumor in his stomach; some said the cause was a Infarction in the heart that stayed for ten days and led to death .some proposed that his physician Ibn Tayfur bled him with a poisoned lancet of which he died. It is also said that Ibn Tayflir forgetting this and falling ill himself, ordered his slave to bleed him, who bled him with the same lancet and he died also. When he was on the point of death, his mother went to see him and he exclaimed, " O mother, this world and the next have gone from me: I shortened the days of my father, and my own end is now hastened."

 

 

(6) Al-Muntasir deaths was on Sunday the 25th of Rabii II, 248 a.h .at the `Asr prayer (The late afternoon obligatory salaah –). Al-Muntasir during his succession used to say : I swear to Allah there is no glory  for someone with falsity even if moon came from his forehead, and no obsequiousness for anyone endowed with  rightness even If the world been agreed on him . (albedaia w alnehaia 10/354)(the completed history 6/148).

 

(7) His age when died was 25 years old and said and 6 months, (albedaia …..