—through what he had heard from him—and he went on to produce meticulously crafted works that circulated far and wide.
A large number of scholars narrated from him and read to him, among them: his son Abū al-ʿAbbās; Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn Abī al-Qāsim Najāḥ; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Dush; Abū al-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zayd ibn al-Bayyāz; Abū al-Dhawwād (1) Mufarrij al-Iq bālī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Mufarrij al-Baṭalyawsī; Abū Bakr ibn al-Faṣīḥ; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muzāḥim; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Mubashshir; Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṭulayṭulī; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Faraj al-Mughāmī (2); Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī—resident of Alexandria; Abū al-Qāsim Ibn al-ʿArabī; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Faraj al-Tujībī al-Mughāmī; Abū Tammām Ghālib ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qaysī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Suʿūd al-Dānī; Khalaf ibn Muḥammad al-Marīyī ibn al-ʿUrabī; and many others besides.
Those who received an ijāza (formal teaching authorization) from him include Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khawlānī and Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Ḥamzah al-Mursī—the last person on earth to transmit from him; he lived on for another eighty-seven years after Abū ʿAmr, a rarity, especially in the Maghrib.
Al-Mughāmī said: “Abū ʿAmr’s supplications were answered; he followed the Mālikī school.” (3)
Al-Ḥumaydī (4) remarked: “He was a prolific hadith scholar and a distinguished Qur’an reciter; he studied both in al-Andalus and in the East.”