He also heard hadith in Málaga from Abū Muḥammad al-Qurṭubī and Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Jayyār, and in Asṭabba (1) from Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Khawlānī.

He performed the pilgrimage, and while in Damascus he transmitted copiously from Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Bunn, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Ṣaṣrā, and the rest of that tier of teachers.

Al-Abbār mentioned him and said (2): “He was accurate and exacting; he wrote a great deal. Then he was put to the test when the enemy took him captive, and most of what he had amassed was lost (3). He later served as Friday preacher in Málaga, and he granted me authorization for his narrations.”

He died in 632 AH, in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, at the age of fifty-one (4).

His companion ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥājib said: “He was a ḥāfiẓ of precision, a refined man of letters, calm, dignified, and upright.”

The ḥadith master al-Ḍiyāʾ told me: “There is no one among the students like him.”

Al-Zakī al-Barzalī told me: “He is trustworthy and firmly grounded. He narrated to us from memory, saying, ‘Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī informed us, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Quzmān informed us, Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj al-Tallaʿī narrated to us a report from the Muwaṭṭaʾ.’ ”

Ibn Masdī likewise wrote: “In Mecca he studied under Yūnus al-Qaṣṣār al-Hāshimī and remained in that land for a little over twenty years. He was precise, critical, and knowledgeable about the transmitters.”