He studied fiqh and literature, authored works, and rose to prominence; yet he falsified credentials for himself, claiming that he had heard hadith from al-Urmawī. In reality he did listen to Ibn al-Baṭṭī and scholars of his generation, read prolifically, and mastered many subjects. He also pursued medicine and philosophy, excelled in calligraphy, and was later sent as an envoy to Ibn al-Bahlawān. He died in Tiflis at the end of 599 AH, aged fifty-nine. He was a liar.

202 – Ibn Abī Jamrah, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Umawī
The shaykh, the imām, the long-lived authority, and the leading transmitter of hadith in the Maghrib: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Walīd ibn Abī Jamrah al-Umawī, their client, an Andalusian from Murcia.

He heard many works from his father, among them al-Taysīr by Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī, for which he held the author’s written authorization. He also heard from Abū Bakr ibn Aswad and Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Jaʿfar, while Abū Baḥr Sufyān ibn al-ʿĀṣ, the jurist Abū al-Walīd Ibn Rushd, Abū al-Ḥasan Shurayḥ, and many others granted him ijāzah. He recited the Mudawwanah in its entirety to his father.