And Malīḥ is one of the villages of Herat.

129 – al-Muʿtaḍid, ʿAbbād ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Lakhmī*
The ruler of Seville: Abū ʿAmr ʿAbbād ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbbād al-Lakhmī, the Andalusian, son of the judge Abū al-Qāsim.

His father governed Seville for a time and died in 433 AH (1); ʿAbbād then succeeded him and assumed the honorific al-Muʿtaḍid bi-Llāh.

He was high-minded, imposing, brave, and resolute. For a period he continued on his father’s course, after which he was addressed as Commander of the Believers.

He had a number of people executed in cold blood, confiscated the property of the leading men, and firmly secured his rule.

Inside his palace he erected wooden frames and crowned them with the severed heads of emirs and dignitaries (2). People used to liken him to al-Manṣūr, yet the breadth of this man’s realm was a journey of only six days, whereas Abū Jaʿfar’s dominion stretched an eight-month journey in length and comparable breadth.

One of his sons plotted to kill him but did not succeed; the father imprisoned him, then executed him. He thereafter bequeathed the throne to his son al-Muʿtamid Muḥammad (3), who proved to be a tyrannical oppressor (4).

He died in 464 AH (5), and his son succeeded him.