[2] He went to El Jadida to work as adel with qadi al-Abid ibn Suda, at this city he started teaching principles of language and religion.
One of his students was Abd al-Salam ibn Suda who wrote a tarjama (biographical notice) about him in his work Sall an-nisal li 'n-nidal, bi 'l-ashyakh wa-ahl al-kamāl.
One of the most known books that he printed was Abd al-Rahman al-Jadiri's Rawdat al-azhar fl 'ilm waqt al-layl wa an-nahar.
His zealous support for wahhabism was showing, people started turning away from him and some fuqaha' issued a fatwa against him for his "ibtida'" (to initiate illegitimate innovations) and "muruq" (deviation).
[2] He was sick for a while until his death in 1922 and was buried in the mausoleum of Abu Yahya al-Mallah in the Bab el-Oued quarter.