He established a great madrasa for seeking knowledge and arranged for it, and in the mosque, generous stipends. Among them, he established a madrasa system that did not exist in his time. Scholars and the pious among the Moors, for the brilliant scholar Sidi Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Riyahi, our Sheikh and the Sheikh of the authorized Sheikhs in Tunis. He stipulated that he read two lessons every day: a lesson in Fiqh and a lesson in Tafsir. The Sheikh added from himself a lesson in Hadith and a lesson in Nahw. The owner of the... on the aforementioned mosque and madrasa, a great deal, so much so that his mosque, which is the most beautiful and harmonious, is the greatest mosque in Tunis. It was not that there was none more perfect or more beloved than it, even if it was small, except that in them you would not have seen it. I have seen several mosques in Cairo, in Basra, in the West, and in Tyre, and in the Hijaz, but I have not seen one like it, except perhaps the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, and the Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez, or the Hagia Sophia Mosque in Palestine, is greater than it. He built a great market for merchants in front of the mosque and built above it a great caravanserai for his sitting. He established several maktabs and fountains in various places. I have seen one of the fountains he established with the date of our Sheikh, the pillar, Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Riyahi, and its inscription: "This fountain was generously provided by one hoping for the reward of his Lord."

From Al-Tahrir

Yusuf