The third travel from the book excerpted from the news of the people of Al-Andalus

Book title: The Third Travel from the Book Extracted from the News of the People of Al-Andalus Author: Ibn Hayan Al-Qurtubi (d. 469 AH) Verification: Dr. Mahmoud Ali Makia Edition: 1430 AH 2009 Number of parts: 1 Number of pages: 615 Publisher: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies A book of great importance in the history books, only scattered parts have reached us. Its subject is the history of Al-Andalus from the Arab conquest in the year 19 AH until the last caliphate of Al-Mustansir in 336 AH. It is one of the books that Ibn Hazm boasted of in his letter on the virtue of Al-Andalus, where he said: "Among them is the book of the Great History in the news of the people of Al-Andalus, authored by Abu Marwan Ibn Hayan, about ten volumes, one of the most distinguished writings in this regard. It is still alive, not beyond exhaustion." It is fitting that Ibn Hazm boasts about this book, as seen in the excerpt published in this program, which pertains to the Emirate of Abdul Rahman Al-Awsat ibn Al-Hakam, from the events of 232 AH. If Ibn Hayan followed this pattern in all his writings, there is no doubt that it is the greatest of what was written about the history of Al-Andalus. From Ibn Sa'id's words in "Al-Maghrib," it is understood that Ibn Hazm said this before Ibn Hayan authored his lost book, which he called "Al-Matin," focusing on events of his era, consisting of sixty volumes. Dr. Mahmoud Ali Makia was one of the most prominent who worked on publishing parts of the book "Al-Muqtas," after three sections had been published by the French Provençal, the Spanish Father Melanchthon Antonio, and Professor Abdul Rahman Haji. In his extensive introduction to the book, he refuted the opinion that Ibn Hayan wrote "Al-Muqtas" before "Al-Matin," believing that he continued to add modifications to both until the end of his life. He also discussed two other books authored by Ibn Hayan: the first is "News of the Umayyad State, copied with the Barbarian Fitna," which contains over a hundred volumes, as narrated from Ibn Al-Khatib, covering the period from 336 AH to 399 AH. The second is "The Great Blow," which narrates a significant event that shook Al-Andalus—namely, the invasion of Banu Juhur's state by Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad in Cordoba on Sunday, 21st of Sha'ban, 463 AH. The Ministry of Cultural Affairs in Rabat held a special festival on the history of Al-Andalus and the آثار of Ibn Hayan, between November 19 and 23, 1981. See some of the lectures published in the Arab magazine (16, p. 641 and 17, p. 5). It appears that Ibn Hayan may have exaggerated in his history regarding some of the notable figures of Al-Andalus. Ibn Bashkuwal mentioned this in his biography and narrated that the pious scholar Ibn Aoun saw him in a dream after his death, asking what God had done with him. He replied: "He forgave me." I asked him: "And what about the history you made?" He said: "By God, I regretted it, but God forgave me." Abdullah Kanun limited his participation in this aspect of Ibn Hayan's morals to a lecture titled "A Weak Point in Ibn Hayan’s History," as quoted from Al-Warraq.