 among those who mourned cordoba from among its prominent people and the owners of the abundant blessings there and who expressed the greatest grief over his homes when they were destroyed when the berbers fled from it was the jurist and man of letters abu muhammad ali ibn ahmad ibn sa`id ibn hazm the son of the greatest minister of the al`amir family. for i found in his handwriting in a report he mentioned he said
وممن رثى قرطبة أيضا ، من وجوه أهلها وأرباب النعم المؤثلة بها، وأكثر التفجع على دياره منها، لما استولى الخراب عليها عند فرار البرابر عنها، الفقيه الأديب أبو محمد علي بن أحمد بن سعيد ابن حزم، ابن وزير آل عامر الأكبر. فإني وجدت بخطه في خبر ذكره قال