ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿArabī al-Andalusi, the Sevillan, a Mālikī jurist and prolific author.

Ibn Bashkuwal (1) once asked him about his date of birth, and he replied, “In the year 468 AH.”

He heard hadith from his maternal uncle al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Hawzanī and from a number of other scholars in al-Andalus.

His father, Abū Muḥammad (2), was among the foremost companions of Abū Muḥammad Ibn Ḥazm the Ẓāhirī, whereas the son—the judge Abū Bakr—was opposed to Ibn Ḥazm and spoke of him with undisguised vehemence.

He travelled in the company of his father and, in Baghdad, the two of them heard hadith from Ṭirād ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Niʿālī, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Ibn al-Baṭar, Jaʿfar al-Sarrāj, Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī, and many others.

In Damascus he studied with the jurist Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maqdisī, Abū al-Faḍl ibn al-Furāt, and a group besides them.

In Jerusalem he heard from Makkī ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Rumaylī.

In the Noble Sanctuary he attended the lessons of the jurist Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī.

In Egypt he related hadith from the judge Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khilaʿī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dāwūd al-Fārisī, and others.

He pursued legal studies under Imām Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, the jurist Abū Bakr al-Shāshī, and the erudite