He narrated from: his own father, his grandfather, his other grandfather—the long-lived Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Dhakwān—Yūsuf ibn al-Qāsim al-Mayānajī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-Rūdhbarī, and many others.

Like his father, he, too, lived to a great age.

Those who transmitted from him were Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr al-Anbārī, ʿAlī ibn Bakkār al-Ṣūrī, and a number of others. By written authorization, the jurist Naṣr al-Maqdisī and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Mawāzīnī also reported from him.

Munajjā ibn Sulaym the scribe relates from him: “I once went six full months without drinking any water.”

He likewise said, “I heard the Muwattaʾ from my grandfather in the year 357 AH. I am now eighty-seven years old, and I have maintained an unbroken fast for twenty-eight years; my father and my grandfather did the same.”

Al-Sakan died in Sidon on the day of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, in 433 AH. The town of Sidon remained within the Dār al-Islām until the Franks seized it around 500 AH; it stayed in their hands for a long while, until Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn reconquered it in 690 AH and demolished its fortress.

Among those who died together with Ibn Jumayʿ in 402 AH were: the Shaykh of Hamadhān, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Turkān al-Tamīmī, the currier (1)—he undertook a journey during which he heard ḥadīth from Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād—and the eloquent minister and accomplished scribe, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm ibn Ghālib al-Yazīdī al-Andalusī (2), the father of the jurist Abū