ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh of the Umayyad house. They gave him the honorific al-Murtaḍā and marched with him on Granada. Yet when they realized his power, sternness, and steady nerve, they regretted promoting him; dreading what he might do, they abandoned him and sent someone to assassinate him in secret (1).
As for ʿAlī ibn Ḥammūd, a group of his Slavic slave-boys attacked him in the bathhouse and killed him at the end of 408 AH (2).
He left two sons, Yaḥyā al-Muʿtalī and Idrīs. Our own teacher, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Idrīsī—one of their descendants—related to us in Egypt on the authority of Ibn Bāqā (3).
- al-Qāsim ibn Ḥammūd ibn Maymūn al-Idrīsī
He assumed rule over al-Andalus after his brother ʿAlī ibn Ḥammūd was murdered in 408 AH (4). A quiet, even-tempered man, he kept the populace secure, though he inclined somewhat toward Shiʿism. He remained on the throne until Rabīʿ al-Awwal 412 AH, when his nephew Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥammūd al-Muʿtalī rebelled. Al-Qāsim fled without a fight to Seville, won over the Berbers, raised an army, and marched on Córdoba, from which al-Muʿtalī now fled. Before long, however, al-Qāsim’s fortunes collapsed, the Berbers deserted him, and they scattered in 414 AH.