He moved from Málaga to Ceuta, then to Salé, and afterwards to Fez, where he assumed the chair of instruction.

He had been the travelling companion and close friend of Abū Zayd al-Suhaylī. When he left him and settled in the town of Salé (1), Abū Zayd composed the following verses for him and sent them on:

Ask Salé about Salé, for learning and good sense—
with his departure—bade Umm al-Rabab and Maʾsalā farewell.
I wept in grief while he was still in Ceuta;
how shall I find comfort now that his home is Salé?
People say that distance brings relief,
but the distance is long and my heart has found no relief.
Would that, when separation stretched so far,
Abū Isḥāq had sent his gentle greeting on the wind.
Then the west wind would have reached me like the soft east breeze,
as it did at Dhū Ghamr when Zayd’s affairs grew hard.
He used to gift me hadith with unbroken chains;
now those once-linked reports reach me as interrupted transmissions.
He breathed life into knowledge and remembrance among us when he was near;
now, by his distance, that ardour has waned.
By Allah, blessed is the mother in al-Mariyya who bore him,
and blessed the father—how much goodness did they beget!

Ibn Qurqul died in Shaʿbān of the year 569 AH, at the age of sixty-four.

335 – Mawdūd ibn Zinkī ibn Āqsunqur al-Turkī *
The sultan, lord of Mosul, Qutb al-Dīn Mawdūd, son of the atabeg Zinkī ibn Āqsunqur al-Turkī, known as al-Aʿraj (the Lame).