[5] Several scholars have tried in the past to link Abu al-Qasim's ancestry with a certain Chamutus, who defended Enna against the Norman conqueror Roger I in 1087, but this is not substantiated.
[2] In 1167, Abu al-Qasim supported the master chamberlain, Richard the Qaid, in his designs against the chancellor, Stephen du Perche.
Falcandus claims that this was because Stephen seemed to favour his rival, the Qaid Sedictus, "the richest of the Muslims" (possibly to be identified with al-Sadid Abu al-Makarim Hibat Allah ibn al-Husri).
In 1175, he is known to have sent letters to Saladin urging him to conquer Sicily, and a decade later, shortly before he was met by Ibn Jubayr, he was accused of sending similar proposals to the Almohads of Morocco, and was forced to pay fines and surrender much of his property.
[9] His subsequent fate is unknown, but only four years after his meeting with Ibn Jubayr, the first of a series of Muslim rebellion broke out in Sicily, that would eventually lead to the complete eradication of Islam from the island.