Muflih, surnamed al-Aswad ("the Black") and al-Khadim ("the Eunuch"), was the chief court eunuch under the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir (r. 908–932). By 922/3 he had risen to a position of great influence at court, and supported the ousting of the vizier Hamid ibn al-Abbas, whom he disliked, in favour of Ali ibn al-Furat. He intervened, however, to save Hamid's deputy Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah from the tortures inflicted on him by Ibn al-Furat's son al-Muhassin. According to al-Suli, Muflih was appointed as governor of Jerusalem in 935, during the caliphate of al-Radi.