and the robe of lightning was torn asunder, while the brightness of dawn put on mourning (1), and the stars of night gathered for a funeral.
No perfect full moon has, since your departure, alighted upon a dwelling, nor has the midday sun shown so much as a smile.
He who delivered Joseph from the pit will deliver you, and He who sheltered the Messiah, son of Mary, will shelter you (2).
When Ibn al-Labbāna finished reciting these verses and made ready to depart, al-Muʿtamid gave him a tafḍīla (robe of honor) and twenty dinars, together with some lines in which he apologized.
Ibn al-Labbāna said, “I returned them to him, for I knew his condition and that he had nothing left.”
Ibn Khallikān (3) states: “He was born in 431 AH and died in Shawwāl, 488 AH.”
Ibn al-Labbāna listed al-Muʿtamid’s sons by name and honorific, numbering about thirty, and he counted for him thirty-four daughters.
I say: they fell into abject poverty and had to learn trades; such is the course of time. We ask Allah for forgiveness.

36 – Ibn al-Murābiṭ, Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn Saʿīd al-Andalusī
The imam, mufti of the city of Almería and its qāḍī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn