 When he was young, he traveled to virtually all parts of Spain except the seabord provinces, which was forbidden to him due to his status as Morisco.Places he visited include Alcántara, Almagro, Astorga, Ávila, Gandia, Granada, Jaén, Ocaña, Requena, Ronda, Segovia, and Zaragoza.He collaborated with Bray de Reminjo, the faqih of the village of Cadrete in Aragon, to write an Islamic religious manual called "Brief compendium of our sacred law and sunna", in the 1530s.