ABSTRACT
For several years the people could not agree upon a governor [for al-Andalus] until the Berbers there appointed Ayyu¯b ibn H
˙ abı¯b al-Lakhmı¯ [97/716] to
rule them. H ˙
abı¯b was the nephew of Mu¯sa¯ on his sister’s side. This Ayyu¯b has descendants near Binna, Peña in the province of Rayya, [Málaga].1