Abu Shuja's date of birth is unknown.
[1][2] Historians stress his family's enormous wealth, but also his integrity.
[2] He served as vizier to al-Mustansir during the chaos of the Mustansirite Hardship, for only two days in December 1064 and again from January to February 1065.
'the exalted one'), as well as his father's title of fakhr al-mulk (lit.
[3] When Badr al-Jamali was called to take over the vizierate by al-Mustansir in 1073, Abu Shuja left for Syria, but was intercepted and executed by Badr al-Jamali.