He accompanied Al-Shihab Abd al-Latif ibn al-Marhil and recited to Ibn al-Siraj, and he heard from Abu Hayyan Al-Andalusi the Diwan (collection) of Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, but he did not stay with him or read to him anything else.
He narrated on Ibn Jama'ah in Shatibiyyah, and he learned to follow the Shafi’i school of thought.
[16] Ibn Hisham was endowed with extraordinary intelligence and a strong memory, as he was able to collect several sciences and excel in them.
He was unique in his strange benefits, precise investigations, amazing deductions, brilliant investigation, excessive knowledge, the ability to dispose of speech, and the faculty with which he was able by expressing his intention in what he wanted in length and summary,[17] and what indicates to us the extent of his acumen, and the strength of his memorization until the end of his life, is that he memorized Mukhtasar Al-Kharqi in less than four months, five years before his death.
Ibn Hisham was distinguished by “humility, righteousness, compassion, gentleness of character, and tenderness of heart,”[17] in addition to his religion, chastity, good conduct, and uprightness.