He hailed from the Arab tribe of Udra which had settled Almería.
[1][2] Born in Almería in 1003, Al-Udri journeyed to Mecca as a young boy.
During his ten-year stay, he studied with Abu Dhar al-Harawi.
[3] He lived in Zaragoza and was the author of a geographical-historical compendium about the Taifa of Zaragoza in al-Andalus, in which he gives the annals of the region.
He is best known for the Tarsi al-akhbar (Nizam al-murdjan),[4] a history of the civil wars and rebellions on the Upper March and the civil war in the Taifa of Almería.