أخبار الأخباريين في استيطان الأندلس

Al-Maqqari in Nafh al-tib transmits what the historians and chroniclers related about the succession of peoples in al-Andalus before Islam. These are transmitted accounts, and they need a further source. ²

He mentions that the place was named after the Andalush, and that the Arabs said it with an "s". They were destroyed by a drought that withheld the rain, and al-Andalus was left deserted for about a hundred years. Then the king of Africa expelled a people of the Africans in ships under a commander called Abtariqus; they anchored on the western coast of al-Andalus and occupied the island of Cadiz. The seat of their kingdom lasted a hundred and fifty-seven years. ²

Then the Romans of Rome supplanted them. Their king was Ishban ibn Tituch, and the name al-Andalus was given after him as "Ishbaniyya." He was the one who built Seville and transported to it the marble of Tulaytula. ³

In the lore of the chroniclers, the table of Solomon and the Qalila al-Durr were part of the share of an Andalusian king called Brian, who lived to see the conquest of Jerusalem with Nebuchadnezzar. ⁴