Thy love to me by happiness when I should have
made Thee hate me by disobedience. But my trust in
Thee produced in me rashness toward Thee. Restore
me therefore to Thy grace and Thy mercies, for Thou
art the Compassionate, the Pitiful."



ADVENTURE OF 'ABD-ALLAH-IBN-MARWAn. 275



•ABD-ALLAH-IBN-MARWAN'S ADVENTURE
WITH THE KING OF NUBIA.
TI? L-MANSUR was talking one day in his Assem-
-*-^ bly of the decline of the empire of the Benu-
'Omeyyah, and of what had befallen them, and of
how they had lived in happiness, but died in misery.
And Ismatl-ibn-'Aly, el-Hishimy, said to him, "Verily
'Abd-Allah-ibn-Marwan-ibn-Muhammad,* is in thy

* See Translator's Note, p. 235. I find various accounts of
the fate of 'Abd-AUah-ibn-Muhanjmad. Abu-Ja'afar, et-Tdbar'y,
and el-Makin assert that Muhammad left behind him two
sons, 'Abd- Allah and 'Abd-el-'Aztz ; the former of whom was, after
his father's death, taken and imprisoned, and so remained until
the Khalifate of Harun, er-Rashid, when he was released from
his confinement, though he was still loaded with irons ; and
that he died childless, and was buried at Baghdad. D'Herbelot,
on the other hand, states as follows : " II (Marwan-ibn-Muham-
mad) regna cinq ans ou environ, et les Abbasides firent mourir
aprds sa mort tous ceux de sa Maison qu'ils putent avoir entre
les mains. II y en eut un cependant, lequel s'etant sauve en
Egypte, de Ik en Afrique, et passant en Espa'gne, y fonda une
seconde Dynastie des Ommiades, qui prirent aussi en ce pays-la
le titre des Khalifes.'' D'Herbelot says elsewhere that this
founder of the dynasty in Spain was 'Abd-AMh. But in
another place again throws doubt upon this statement by
saying, " II est vray cependant que Marvan le dernier de ces



276 'IlAM-EN-NAS.
