He transmitted portions of his own works in the year 387 AH⦗1⦘.
7 – Ibn Abī ʿĀmir, Abū ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qaḥṭānī
Al-Malik al-Manṣūr, the chamberlain (ḥājib) of the Andalusian dominions: Abū ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn Walīd al-Qaḥṭānī al-Maʿāfirī, from Córdoba. He bore the burdens of state on behalf of the Marwānid caliph al-Muʾayyad bi-Allāh Hishām ibn al-Ḥakam, ruler of al-Andalus. That caliph was installed when he was nine years old, and the reins of authority were placed in this chamberlain’s hands.
Abū ʿĀmir then went to the libraries of al-Ḥakam, brought out their contents, separated the philosophical works, and burned them in the presence of the scholars; many others he buried. They were exceedingly numerous. He did this to discredit the views of al-Mustanṣir al-Ḥakam⦗2⦘.
He was a fearless champion, brave and resolute, an astute statesman, a frequent campaigner and a man of learning, possessed of many virtues, the author of numerous conquests, lofty in aspiration and without equal. Further details of his career will be mentioned in the entry on al-Muʾayyad⦗3⦘.
He remained in power for a little over twenty years; the Peninsula⦗4⦘ submitted to him, and security prevailed.