مغيث الرومي

Mughith al-Rumi, a client of al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik. Tariq ibn Ziyad sent him from Algeciras to Córdoba with seven hundred horsemen. ²

Al-Maqqari relates (the conquest of Córdoba) that he lay in ambush at the river Shaqunda, and a shepherd showed them a breach in the wall. They crossed the river by night, clung to the wall from a fig tree, broke the locks of the gate and took the city. He then besieged its king in a church on the west of the city for three months, until he cut off their water channel; and he caught him near the village of Tatlir. ²

Al-Maqqari says that some people held that the conqueror of Córdoba was Mughith and not Tariq. ²

Al-Walid sent him to Musa ibn Nusayr, ordering him to come to Damascus. Musa gave him respite until he had conquered Galicia and Asturias, and he went with him in their conquest. ³