In Denia Abū al-Ṣalt  studied under al-Waqqashī (1017/8–1095/6), who had emigrated from Toledo. Later, he also studied in Seville before leaving al-Andalus for Alexandria and Cairo. He arrived in Alexandria in 1096; he worked in the court during the reign of the Fatimid ruler al-Mustaˁlī ibn al-Mustanṣir. Circa 1106–7, he was imprisoned (1107–8 and 1111–2). On his release, Abū al-Ṣalt left Egypt and arrived in Mahdiyya in the year 1112–3 and settled there until his death. He was buried in the Ribāṭ of Monastir (present-day Tunisia). [BEA, Comes]