text:  As an illustration of the character of his son Hisham it is related by Al-Makkari that on hearing that the people of Cordova said that his only motive in restoring the great bridge over the Guadalquivir was to pass over it himself when he went out hunting he bound himself by a solemn vow never to cross it again as long as he lived; but the reign of this beneficent prince lasted only eight years