Ibn al-Aʿrabi said: “Everyone I met held Abu Ahmad in high esteem—Abu Hamzah, Saʿd al-Dimashqi, al-Junayd, and Ibn al-Khalanji—and they all loved him. Later he married, yet he never shut his door nor kept anything back from his companions. We attended his wedding night (1) together with al-Junayd and Ruwaym, and we had with us a reciter chanting poems on renunciation. Abu Ahmad spent almost the entire night weeping and moving about, until he finally said—

He performed the pilgrimage in 270 AH, and died in Mecca after the caravan had departed; the governor of Mecca led the funeral prayer for him.

Al-Khuldi reported: Abu Ahmad al-Qalansi told me, “A man distributed forty thousand dirhams among the poor. Sumnun said to me, ‘Do you see what this man has spent and accomplished, while we have nothing left to give? Come with me to a place.’ So we went to al-Madaʾin and performed forty thousand cycles of prayer (2).”

102 – The Lord of al-Andalus, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn al-Hakam *
His mention has already appeared alongside his forefathers (3).

He is the prince Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad, son of the ruler of al-Andalus ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn al-Hakam ibn Hisham ibn al-Dakhil ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muʿawiyah ibn the Caliph Hisham ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam, the Qurashi, the Umayyad, the Marwanid, from Cordoba.

He was among the finest of the Marwanid kings.

He possessed virtue and devotion, learning and eloquence, boldness and bravery, sound judgment and statesmanship.