Early Years
From the Yemeni tribe of Ghafiq, he relocated to Ifriqiya (now Tunisia), then to the stretch of the Maghreb that is now Morocco, where he became acquainted with Musa Ibn Nusair and his son Abdul Aziz, the governors of Al-Andalus.
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