Ibn al-Habbar

Yahya ibn Abd al-Malik al-Ghafiqi, Abu al-Hasan, known as Ibn al-Habbar, an Andalusian from the districts of Murcia who came over with the community of exiles. Ibn Khaldun in al-Ibar says that he wrote well. He rose from service to Ibn Abi al-Husayn to the office of the diwan, and then to writing the mark of al-Wathiq. ¹

Ibn Khaldun says that he took control of the state and the rule, that Ibn Abi al-Husayn died in agony in Dhu al-Hijja 676 AH, and that about six hundred thousand dinars were dug up from beneath his house. ¹

According to the same account, the notables killed him on the first of Dhu al-Qa'da 677 AH, in his seat at the sultan's gate. The Gregorian equivalent (1279 CE) is calculated and is not stated in the source. ¹