with your voices, for a beautiful voice lends the Qur’an further beauty. (1)
Ṣadaqah: trustworthy.
18 – ʿImād al-Dawla ibn Hūd
He was one of the kings of al-Andalus around the year 500 AH. He belonged to a royal house that had ruled the eastern part of al-Andalus. When the Almoravids (al-Mulaththamūn) gained control of al-Andalus, Yūsuf ibn Tāshfīn kept Ibn Hūd in power. When ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf succeeded his father, he was inwardly upright, yet his ministers urged him to seize the throne from Ibn Hūd, saying to him: “All the wealth of al-Mustanṣir the ʿUbaydī—swollen by Egypt’s extreme inflation—has ended up entirely with the Banū Hūd.
“They also said, ‘The Sacred Law commands you to work for their removal, since they are on friendly terms with the Byzantines.’ So he dispatched the commander Abū Bakr ibn Tiflūt (2) against them. ʿImād al-Dawla fortified himself in Rūṭa (3) and wrote to ʿAlī ibn Tāshfīn, appealing for peace and saying:
‘You have in what your father did a model to follow…’
(1) The chain of transmission is robust and meets the conditions laid down by Muslim. Al-Hakim also recorded it (1/575) through the route of Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Samarkandi—“Muhammad ibn Bakr narrated to us; Sadqa narrated to us …”—with the wording “zayyinu” (“adorn”). The first portion of the report is likewise transmitted from al-Bara ibn Azib by Ahmad (4/285, 296, 304), Abu Dawud (1468), al-Darimi (2/474), al-Nasa i (2/179-180), Ibn Majah (1342) and al-Hakim (1/575). The chain is sound.
(*) Cited by: Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 9/289; Ibn al-Abi Zar, al-Hulla al-sira, 2/248-249; Ibn Sa id, al-Maghrib fi huli al-Maghrib, 2/438; Ibn Idhari, A mal al-a lam, 202; al-Maqrizi, al-Hilal al-mushiyya, 71; Ibn Khaldun, Tarikh, 4/163; al-Maqri, Nafh al-tib, 1/441; al-Nassiri, al-Istiqsa, 2/66-67; Mu jam al-ansab wa-l-usarat al-hakima, 90. His full name is Abd al-Malik ibn Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn Hud al-Judhami, Abu Marwan.
(2) He is Abu Bakr ibn Ibrahim, better known as Ibn Tayfalut—Nafh al-tib records the form “Tayfalu y t” with an additional y after the waw—one of the Almoravid princes and governor of Zaragoza; he died in 510 AH/1117 CE. See al-Istiqsa, 2/65, and al-Ihata, 1/404-409.
(3) Ruta is a very strongly fortified castle belonging to the district of Zaragoza; see Mu jam al-buldan, 3/96.