It gave the names of the governors of al-Andalus before the emirate and the emirs thereafter. What Ibn al-Qūṭiyya knew of his ancestor Sara the Goth he drew from the lost urjūza of Ibn ʿAlḳama.[1] Ibn Diḥya cites Ibn ʿAlḳama as his authority for al-Ghazāl's embassy to the Vikings. He records that the former got his information from direct questioning of the latter, but Ibn Diḥya is not an entirely reliable source.