Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, citing Ibn al-Abbār, however, places his birth in 809 or 810 (AH 194).
[1] Ibn ʿAlqama held the office of vizier (wazīr) under the emirs Muḥammad I (852–886), al-Mundhir (886–888) and ʿAbd Allāh (888–912).
[1] Although he was famous as an Arabic poet, only a few lines of Ibn ʿAlqama's poetry are known.
These are quoted by Ibn al-Abbār, who extols a lost urjūza by Ibn ʿAlqama that covered the Islamic conquest of Spain (711) and all the wars fought there from that time down to the end of the reign of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān II in 852, which is probably the time when it was written.
He records that the former got his information from direct questioning of the latter, but Ibn Diḥya is not an entirely reliable source.