Most of the information about the family relationships of the BanÅ« AbÄ« Ê¿Ämir is compiled from the biographical information given in the main historical sources for this period:
Ibn Ê¿IdhÄrÄ«, Al-BayÄn al-Mughrib, II: 273â274, 293â294 [Fagnanâs translation 424â427, 455â456], and III: 3â74 [Salgadoâs translation, 11â74]
Dhikr BilÄd al-Andalus 1:175 [2: 186, §147â148]
Al-MaqqarÄ«, Nafḥ al-Ṭib min ghuá¹£n al-Andalus al-raá¹Ä«b, Gayangosâ translation pp. 178â179
The other major source which has provided additional information is Ibn Ḥazm, Ṭawq al-ḤamÄma, 1953 translation, as follows: p. 22: on WÄhid, the gardenerâs (or cheesemongerâs) daughter; pp. 43, 50, 143: on AbÅ« Ê¿Ämir Muḥammad (ibn al-Muáºaffar); pp. 127â128: on Burayhaâs aunt (the necrophiliac!); p. 217: on al-Muáºaffarâs daughter, á¸anÄ.
Al-á¸alfÄʾ is only mentioned during the accounts of the destruction of al-ZÄhira in BayÄn III (see Chapter 4). Her father KhÄlid ibn HishÄm, is mentioned at Dhikr BilÄd I:148 [II:186â7]. The grand-daughter of MujÄhid who was the favoured wife of AbÅ« Ê¿Amir Ê¿AbbÄd al-Muʾtaá¸id (Taifa ruler of Seville, 1041â69), is mentioned at BayÄn III:208 [translation, 175].
Information on those grandsons of al-Manṣūr, and their offspring, who became Taifa rulers, is taken from Wasserstein 1985, 83â98.
Other non-textual evidence has also been drawn on:
Ê¿Abd AllÄh ibn Yaḥya ibn AbÄ« Ê¿Ämir, al-Manṣūrâs nephew, succeeded WÄá¸iḥ as governor of Fez, and his name appears on coins issued at MadÄ«nat FÄs in the years 389 and 390: cf. Miles 1950, 70.
AbÅ« Ê¿Ämir Muḥammad, mawlÄ (?) of HishÄm II, as the son of Burayha (grandson of al-Manṣūr) is mentioned in an inscription given in Lévi-Provençal 1931 (#190), n. 2.
Biographical information for al-Manṣūr is also provided by De la Puente 1997; Viguera 1999; Bariani 2003, 52â55; BallestÃn 2004a; Fierro 2008; and EchevarrÃa 2011, 33â43.
