Córdoba at that time comprised two towns: one was the Eastern Quarter, the other the Great City. The alarm was raised while the people were performing the dawn prayer, so the soldiers mounted and said to the governor, “Lead us out to meet the enemy.” He replied, “Wait until the day is well-lit.” When morning fully broke, he rode out with them, but as soon as he caught sight of the Franks he said, “Go back until I put on my armor!” He thus turned them back, and they trusted him—yet the whole affair had been plotted during the night. The Franks entered immediately after them, spread through the place, and the populace fled into the city. Many elderly men, children, and women were slain, and people’s belongings were plundered beyond reckoning. The Great City became choked with refugees; the Franks besieged them for months, fought them with the utmost ferocity, and the inhabitants ran out of food. A great many died of hunger.

At length they agreed with Afonso—may Allah curse him—to surrender the city on condition that they could depart with all their possessions. He accepted the terms, honored them, and escorted them to safety in the year 634 AH.

I (the author) say: After that Ibn Hud was granted no further respite; Allah seized him in the year 635. His reign had lasted nine years, nine months, and nine days. He perished in Almería, dispatched in his sleep by someone he had wronged. His body was carried to Murcia and buried there. He did not die until the Almohads had regained their strength. After him rose Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Naṣr ibn al-Aḥmar, and kingship remained in his lineage.

Later, Ibn Hud’s nephew—the notable ascetic Badr al-Dīn ibn Hud—came to us in Damascus; I saw him. He was a philosophizing Sufi who drank wine, and the authorities arrested him in a state of intoxication (1)!

15 – al-Ruʿayni, Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn Sulaymān al-Andalusi al-Rundi
The imam, hadith scholar, meticulous master, and seasoned traveler: Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn Sulaymān al-Ruʿayni, the Andalusian from Ronda.