Alyasaʿ ibn Ḥazm said: The power of the Umayyads had been weakened. Ibn Ḥafṣūn—originally a Christian—embraced Islam, then reverted to Christianity (1). He stirred the tribes, rallied great numbers, and all al-Andalus became a blazing fire. No pulpit remained to the Umayyads save the one in Córdoba, while raids were continually launched against their domains, until ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nāṣir arose and the situation was brought back under control.

ʿAbd Allāh died at the beginning of Rabīʿ al-Awwal in the year 300 AH, aged seventy-two.

62 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Umawī,* son of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Hishām—descendant of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dākhil—Sultan of al-Andalus, styled Commander of the Faithful, the One Who Gives Victory to the Religion of Allah (al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh), Abū al-Muṭarrif al-Umawī al-Marwānī.

His father Muḥammad had been designated heir apparent by his own father ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, but Muḥammad’s brother, Abū al-Qāsim al-Muṭarrif, killed him; their father then put al-Muṭarrif to death in retribution. Muḥammad was killed in 277 AH, at the age of twenty-seven, while the execution of al-Muṭarrif was delayed until Ramadan of 282 AH.

When Muḥammad was slain, this ʿAbd al-Raḥmān was only twenty days old, and he succeeded to the caliphate after his grandfather.