He was a resolute statesman, formidable in might; whenever he brandished a spear, it snapped in his hand (1).
His birth took place in 374 AH.
In 406 AH he ordered a full review of his army. Their fine uniforms and impressive appearance delighted him. After the parade he spread the banquet cloth and ate, but died suddenly that very night. His courtiers concealed the news of his death and installed his brother Karāmat on the throne; soon after, they changed course and pledged allegiance to his son al-Muʿizz ibn Bādīs (2).
It is also said that he died by strangulation: the righteous Muḥriz al-Ṭarābulusī, the educator, had invoked a curse upon him because he had resolved to lay waste to Tripoli in the Maghrib (3).
Ṣinhāja is a Himyarite tribe; the first consonant is pronounced with a kasrah.
Ibn Durayd maintained that only the ḍamma on the ṣād is acceptable (4).
127 – Ibn al-Labbān, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
The imām, the eminent scholar, the foremost authority on the laws of inheritance in the Islamic world: Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, known as Ibn al-Labbān the farāʾiḍ-expert, a Shāfiʿī.
He studied under Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Athram and Ibn Dāsah, and from him transmitted