al-Ma'mun al-Qadir ibn Dhi'l-Nun

Yahya ibn Isma'il al-Qadir billah ibn al-Ma'mun ibn Dhi al-Nun, the last of the Banu Dhi al-Nun in Toledo. ¹

Al-Maqqari relates from Ibn Badrun that he built a palace in Toledo, the building of which he took pains over, and made in it a pool, and set a dome in its middle. Water was carried to the top of the dome and flowed down around it, so the dome appeared in a veil of continuous water, while he sat inside it and the water did not touch him. ¹

The report says that he heard a reciter recite a verse that the builder does not live forever, and not long after he died. The passage here is about the building, not about who died; this needs an additional source. ¹

Alfonso besieged Toledo and took it from him in 478 AH, after a long siege that is said to have lasted seven years. He left it carrying an astrolabe with which he fixed a time for departure, and the Muslims marvelled at him and the unbelievers laughed at him, in al-Maqqari's phrasing. ¹

• All the material on this page comes from one book, "Nafh al-Tib"; the dates carry no second source and need an additional source.
• The duration of the siege is reported with "it is said".