His educational tour took him to several countries, including Syria and Egypt, where he studied the Arabic language; Morocco, Mauritania, and UAE, where he studied the ethical and legal school (madhhab) of Imam Malik, grammar, transmissional criticism (usul al-hadith), and the Qur'anic recitation (qira'ah) of Imam Nafi`, according to its two renditions (i.e. those of Imam Warsh and Imam Qalun); an