He had a number of pupils, and among his works are: The Book of Spiritual Medicine; The Book Indeed the Servant Has a Creator; The Introduction to Logic; The Configuration of the World; a Treatise on Pleasure; The Ranks of Vision; Alchemy and Its Closer Relation to Health; and many other titles besides.

In his youth he was a singer, highly skilled at playing the lute.

He died in Baghdad, d. 311 AH.

207 – Ibn al-Maghlūb, Abū ʿUmar Maymūn ibn ʿUmar al-Maghribī*

The long-lived judge Abū ʿUmar Maymūn ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Maghlūb al-Maghribī, al-Ifrīqī, was the last of Sahnūn’s students. He performed the pilgrimage and heard the Muwaṭṭaʾ from Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī.

Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ lists him among the notable Mālikīs.

Ibn Ḥārith said: “I met him as a very old man, unable to walk, after he had served as judge of Kairouan and later of Sicily.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Mālikī states in his History: “He was righteous, devout, and outstanding—counted among the companions of Sahnūn.”

He first held the office of maẓālim (court of grievances) in Kairouan, then the judgeship of Sicily. He arrived there with nothing but a sheepskin cloak, a simple robe, a saddle-bag containing his books, and a Black maidservant who attended him; she would spin wool and support him with her earnings. He left Sicily in exactly the same state in which he had entered it.