concubines (1), two rural estates, and one thousand bridges—each bridge worth one thousand dirhams. Because of this, he styled him “Dhu al-Wizaratayn” (Holder of the Two Vizierates) and raised his standing (2).

Al-Naṣr died before the adornment of Madinat al-Zahrāʾ was completed; his son al-Mustanṣir finished it. Within the city stands a congregational mosque the like of which cannot be found elsewhere, and the same is true of its minaret.

Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih said, “I have a rajaz poem in which I recorded his campaigns (3).” He captured seventy of the mightiest fortresses, and the poets lavished praise upon him.

I add: He passed away in the month of Ramadan in the year 350 AH, at the age of seventy-two—may Allah have mercy on him.

I had already included his biography (4) together with that of his grandfather, but I have repeated it here with additions and useful notes. When a ruler’s aspiration in jihad is lofty, his lapses are tolerated and his reckoning lies with Allah. But when he lets jihad die, wrongs the servants, and lays waste to the treasuries, then “surely your Lord is ever on the watch.”

337 – Ibn al-Akhram, Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr ibn Mur al-Dimashqi
The Qur’an reciter of Damascus, the distinguished scholar, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr ibn Mur ibn al-Ḥurr al-Rabaʿī al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn al-Akhram, a pupil of Hārūn al-Akhfash al-Dimashqi.