[1] A native of the city of Valencia, he wrote a history of the fall of the city to the Christian army of El Cid in 1094 under the title Clear Exposition of the Disastrous Tragedy.
[1] On one reconstruction it covers the period from September 1092 until May 1102, including the recapture of Valencia after El Cid's death.
[4] He writes with pathos and clearly detests all agreements between the Valencians and the Christians.
[3] Partial reconstructions of his work based on excerpts in Christian and Muslim chronicles, respectively, were made by Ramón Menéndez Pidal in 1929.
[5] He believed that the Christian sources preserved more and better information from Ibn ʿAlqāmā than the Muslim chronicles, and tried to tease it out accordingly.