An absolutist monarch by disposition, ascetic without distractions, Ibrahim seems to have kept counsel with himself, largely immune from the influence of courtiers and bureaucrats. Only a few names appear near the top – his learned and martial son, Abu al-Abbas Abdallah, his chamberlain ("hajib") Muhammad ibn Korhob and his successor Hassan ibn Nakib, and two ruthless slave-generals known as Ma'imun and Rashid. Above everybody was his mother, whom the chronicles deferentially refer to merely as the "Sayyida" ("Supreme Lady") and characterize as the only person whose opinion Ibrahim respected or who had any influence upon him (although he was not above embarrassing her – in a public case over a 600 dinar debt she owed two merchants, he judged against her and forced her to pay up).