bound the Berbers to himself by claiming infallibility; he plunged into bloodshed with the recklessness of the Kharijites, and in the end he reaped exactly what he had sown.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Manṣūr ibn al-ʿImādiyya says in his History of the Frontier⦗1⦘: “So-and-so dictated his lineage to me, yet the matter is questionable, for Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan left no descendants.”
Ibn Tumart also composed:
Leave me—for my soul conceals designs untold;
with them I shall don both mail and cloak.
By Allah, if my soul should seize its aim,
I would not flinch from hewing human necks
until the garment of religion is cleansed of every stain
and the truth is fixed upon its lords beyond dispute.
319 – Ibn Ṣadaqa, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Naṣībī *
The grand vizier, Jalāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Ṣadaqa al-Naṣībī.
He moved from one post to another, then married the daughter of the vizier Ibn al-Muṭṭalib, and was appointed
(1) Alexandria was his native city. The author himself sketches his biography in Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 4/1467, describing him as “the imam, hafiz, learned itinerant, Wajih al-Din Abu al-Muzaffar Mansur b. Salim b. Mansur b. Fathuh al-Hamadani al-Iskandarani al-Shafi‘i, muhtasib of the frontier.” He lists among his writings al-Muʿjam, al-Arbaʿin al-baladaniyya, and a two-volume history of Alexandria, and commends his piety, reliability, noble conduct, and expertise in hadith, its disciplines and transmitters, as well as in fiqh. He records his death on 1 Shawwal 677/January 1279.
(*) Main sources: al-Muntazam, 10/9; Kharidat al-qasr, 1/94 (section “Poets of Iraq”); al-Kamil fi al-tarikh, 10/652; al-Fakhri, 304; Tarikh al-Islam, 4:250/1; al-Ibar, 4/51; al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat, 12/147-148; Uyun al-tawarikh, 13/483-485; al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, 12/199; al-Nujum al-zahira, 5/233; Shadharat al-dhahab, 4/66; Muʿjam al-ansab wa-l-usar al-hakima, 9; Encyclopaedia of Islam, 211.