He travelled East and West in the study of Hadīth, taking knowledge from over a thousand shaykhs, among them Abu al-Hasan ibn Hudhayl, Muhammad ibn Khalaf al-Lakhmi, Ibn Zarqun, Abu al-Walid al-Hadrami, al-Silafi, ‘Abd al-Haqq al-Ishbili, Ibn ‘Asâkir, Ibn al-Jawzī, and Ibn Bushku wal. His principal shaykhs in Tasawwuf were Abu Madyan al-Maghribi, Jamal al-Din Yunus ibn Yahya al-Qassar, Abu ‘Abd Allah al-Tamimi al-Fâsi, Abu al-Hasan ibn Jami‘, and al-Khidr. He became known first as al-Shaykh al-Kabir (The Great Shaykh) then al-Shaykh al-Akbar (The Greatest Shaykh) with specific reference to the sciences of Tasawwuf in which he authored hundreds of books.
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