 was a Spanish novelist and poet, born at Mula (Murcia) about the middle of the 16th century.It is likely that he joined the campaign against the "Moriscos" in the Alpujarra in 1560.He owes his wide celebrity to the "Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes" (1595–1619), better known as the "Guerras civiles de Granada", which purports to be a chronicle based on an Arabic original ascribed to a certain Aben-Hamin.