He himself may have been born there or perhaps in Seville, where he spent his formative years and most of his life.
His writings show that he was an eyewitness to many important events, including the Almohad conquest of Carmona in 1161, the fasts ordered in Marrakesh to celebrate the Caliph Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf's recovery from illness in 1170 and the battle of Huete in 1172.
[3] Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāt's main work is al-Mann bi ʾl-imāma ʿala ʾmustaḍʿafīn bi-an jaʿalahum Allāh al-aʿimma wa-jaʿalahum al-wārithīn ('Gift of the Imamate to the Formerly Humiliated, Whom God Has Made Imams and Heirs').
[7] Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāt also wrote Thawrat al-murīdīn ('Revolution of the Disciples'), a history of the second period of taifas (factional kingdoms) that followed the collapse of the Almoravids.
[2] It is lost, but is partially known from citations by other authors, such as Ibn al-Khaṭīb.