His father arranged for him to audition hadith from Abū al-Fatḥ Ibn al-Baṭṭī, Aḥmad Ibn al-Muqarrab, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Sakan, Yaḥyā Ibn Thābit, and Abū al-Makārim al-Bādhirāʾī.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Najjār—who described him as “a shaykh of pleasing appearance, gracious and refined in character”—together with Jamāl al-Dīn al-Sharīshī, Majd al-Dīn Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyyah, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Balbān, ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Fārūthī, and several others.
By written authorization (ijāza) he was also heard by the Hanbali judge, Fakhr Ibn ʿAsākir, and others.
He died on the last day of Muḥarram in the year 638 AH.
In that same year there also died: al-Ṣāḥib Najīb al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Ismāʿīl Ibn Fāris al-Tamīmī al-Iskandarānī, father of al-Kamāl, the master of the Qur’an reciters; the qadi Najm al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khalaf Ibn Rājiḥ al-Maqdisī, first a Hanbali then a Shāfiʿī; Jamāl al-Mulk ʿAlī Ibn Mukhtār Ibn al-Jamal (1) al-ʿĀmirī; Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥātimī al-Ṭāʾī Ibn al-ʿArabī; the judge of Aleppo, Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-Ustādh al-Asadī al-Shāfiʿī; Muḥammad Ibn ʿAlī Ibn Khulayf al-Judhāmī al-Iskandarānī; Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad Ibn ʿAlī Ibn Maḥfūẓ Ibn Tājir ʿAyna; the shaykh Muḥammad Ibn ʿUmar Ibn Abī al-ʿAjāʾiz al-Dimashqī; and al-Taqī Yūsuf Ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim Ibn Niʿmah Ibn Sulṭān al-Nābulusī the Hanbali.