One of the people of the East and the West, whose enumeration is long, and Imam Shams al-Din Muhammad bin Masdi wrote at length in his translation, and this includes his saying that he was beautiful in sentence and detail, a master of the arts of science, the most thorough attainment, and he had in literature an unmatched excellence and an unsurpassed progress, heard in his country from Ibn Zarqoun and al-Hafiz. Ibn al-Jadd and Abu al-Walid al-Hadrami and Ceuta