He narrated ḥadith from his own father, from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Ḥaḍramī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥārith, Muḥammad ibn Abī Ghālib al-Qarawī, and he met Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr. He performed the pilgrimage in the year sixty-nine and four hundred (469 AH); on that journey he heard ʿĪsā ibn Abī Dharr, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī, Abū al-Faḍl al-Jawharī, and Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh al-Tamīmī al-Mahdawī.

Those who transmitted from him include his son, the author of the large Tafsīr.

Ibn Bashkuwāl (1) said: “He was a ḥāfiẓ of ḥadith—fully versed in its transmission paths and hidden flaws—an authority on the narrators, able to recall the texts and their meanings. I read, in the handwriting of one of our companions, that he heard him state he had reviewed (2) Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī seven hundred times.

“He was also a man of letters, a poet and linguist, devout and virtuous. Many people received ḥadith from him. Toward the end of his life he lost his sight, and he wrote to us granting authorization for everything he had transmitted.”

He was born in 441 AH and died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah 518 AH at the age of seventy-seven—may Allah have mercy on him.

His son:

337 – ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Abī Bakr, Abū Muḥammad ibn Ghālib ibn ʿAṭiyyah al-Muḥāribī *

The imam, erudite scholar, and shaykh of the Qur’an exegetes: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, son of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr Ghālib ibn ʿAṭiyyah al-Muḥāribī, of Granada.