He owned extensive estates around Harran[1] and resided in the desert castles of al-Muwaqqar, Qasr Kharana and Dhu Khushub in the Balqa (Transjordan).
Anecdotes recorded in the 10th-century Kitab al-aghani, have al-Ghamr and al-Walid spending time imbibing wine and being entertained by singers at the monastery of Deir Murran at the foot Mount Qasioun near Damascus.
[4] Later, both al-Ghamr and al-Walid carried the bier of the famous singer Ma'bad ibn Wahb during his funeral at the palace of Khirbat al-Mafjar in the Jordan Valley.
Al-Ghamr was among them but due to his friendship with the Abbasid general Abdallah ibn Ali, he was given the dignity of dying by the sword, rather than being bashed to death like the other Umayyads.
[9] According to Ibn al-Abbar, the father and namesake of the Rustamid dynasty, which ruled part of the Maghreb in 777–909, was a mawla (client) of al-Ghamr.