and he ruled Córdoba for eight years. Ibn ʿAbbād then set out against him, subdued him, and captured the city; after that he imprisoned Abū al-Walid in a fortress.

Abū al-Walid had studied Qur’anic recitation with Makkī ibn Abī Ṭālib and heard hadith from Abū al-Muṭarrif al-Qanāziʿī, Yūnus ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughīth, and others, devoting himself keenly to the science of hadith.

He remained in Ibn ʿAbbād’s prison until he died in mid-Shawwāl, 462 AH.

Another report says that Córdoba was taken first by al-Maʾmūn ibn Dhī al-Nūn, lord of Toledo; after him Ibn ʿUkāsha the Berber held sway, then Abū al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbbād seized it, and it thereafter became a dependency of Seville (1).

85 – Idrīs ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥammūd al-Ḥasanī al-Idrīsī*

He was the brother of al-Muʿtalī (2) bi-Llāh. When his brother was killed, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Baqanna (3) fled at once, the Slavic servant escaped with him, and together they reached Málaga, the seat of their dominion. They informed Idrīs ibn ʿAlī—who was then in Ceuta—of his brother’s murder, whereupon he entered al-Andalus.