Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Dilhāth likewise granted him an ijāzah.

Ibn Bashkuwāl said: “He was a jurist of wide learning, a ḥāfiẓ of fiqh who surpassed all his contemporaries in that discipline. He was adept at issuing legal opinions, thoroughly acquainted with the pronouncements of the Mālikī imams, and deeply versed in the sciences of inheritance and legal theory. He enjoyed a position of leadership in knowledge, eloquence, and understanding, combined with piety and merit, dignity and forbearance, admirable comportment, and upright conduct.

Among his writings are: the book al-Muqaddimāt, covering the opening sections of the Mudawwanah; the work al-Bayān wa’l-Taḥṣīl limā fī al-Mustakhraja mina’l-Tawjīh wa’l-Taʿlīl (1); an abridgement of al-Mabsūṭa; and an abridgement of al-Ṭaḥāwī’s Mushkil al-Āthār. We heard parts of these from him in person. In the judiciary he pursued the finest course and the most upright method; thereafter he asked to be relieved, was released, and devoted himself to disseminating his books. People relied upon him and turned to him for help. He was of pleasant character, easy to approach, greatly beneficial to his close circle, gracious in his social dealings with them, and dutiful toward them (2).

He lived seventy years.

He died in Dhū’l-Qaʿdah 520 AH, and his son Abū al-Qāsim led the funeral prayer over him.

Abū al-Walīd ibn al-Dabbāgh transmitted from him, saying: “He was the most learned jurist in al-Andalus. He composed the Sharḥ al-ʿUtbiyyah and brought it to completion with excellence.”

I say: His grandson is the philosopher of his age (3). Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ has a valuable work entitled Suʾālāt li-Ibn Rushd.