al-Mu'tasim ibn Sumadih

Abu Yahya Muhammad b. Ma'n b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Sumadih al-Tujibi al-Mu'tasim, last of the Banu Tujib kings of Almeria; his grandfather held Washqa and Almeria in al-Mu'ayyad Hisham's days, his father Ma'n ruled Almeria — when his leadership passed, al-Mu'tasim joined al-Mu'tamid Ibn 'Abbad in revolt against the amir al-muslimin Yusuf b. Tashfin, who deposed him and seized his land; a brilliant poet — Ibn Bassam in the Dhakhira records a share of his reports, his verse and the scene of his siege. ¹