The war continues into 1483.

Abu Hasan's brother, al-Zagal, defeats a large Christian raiding force in the hills of the Axarquia east of Málaga.

Muhammad XII lays siege to the Spanish Christian town of Lucena in April 1483, but, seized by the Christians while in flight and negotiating to secure his release, he acknowledges the sovereignty of Ferdinand II of Aragon over the kingdom of Granada; Muhammad’s father Abdu l-Hasan Ali rejects it, however.

Ferdinand II and Isabella I had previously not been intent on conquering all of Granada.

With the capture of King Boabdil, however, Ferdinand decides to use him to conquer Granada entirely.

Ferdinand in a letter of August 1483 writes, "To put Granada in division and destroy it We have decided to free him....

He [Boabdil] has to make war on his father."

With the release of Boabdil's, now a pseudo-Christian ally, the Granadan civil war will continue.