In the meantime, Sabuktakin was able to use the widespread calls for among the populace for his own ends, by diverting the mob's ire to the Shi'a Buyids and their supporters. As the contemporary historian Miskawayh commented, "the dispute between the two factions, which had formerly been on religious questions, now became political as well, as the Shi'a adopted the watchword of Bakhtiyar and the Daylamites while the Sunni adopted that of Sabuktakin and the Turks".
