He visited Mahdia, Cairo, Mecca, Baṣra, Anbār, Wāsiṭ, Damascus, Alexandria and Tinnīs.
[1] Al-Ṣadafī was a renowned expert in qirāʾāt (Qurʾānic readings) and ḥadīth (Islamic traditions).
He married a daughter of Abū ʿImrān Mūsā ibn Saʿāda and his library passed to his inlaws on his death.
After exposing the injustice and inefficiency of the Almoravid system, he tendered his resignation in a letter addressed to the Emir ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf, which is preserved.
He wrote one legal work, a commentary on the Shāfiʿī jurisprudence of al-Qaffāl al-Shāshī [ar].