He was born in Baghdad on the last day of Shaʿbān, 575 AH.
He heard ḥadīth from his maternal grandfather Hibat Allāh ibn Ramaḍān and from Ẓāʿin ibn Muḥammad al-Zubayrī.
Those who conferred an ijāzah upon him were Wafāʾ ibn al-Bahiyy, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Furāwī, Maḥmūd ibn Naṣr al-Shaʿʿār, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Shātīl, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAqīl, and several others.
The ḥadīth master and ḥāfiẓ Rashīd al-Dīn Muḥammad, son of the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, compiled for him a Mashyakha (1), and he himself ranked among the leading and righteous Sufis.
Those who narrated from him include the Chief Judge Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ al-Qushayrī, the ḥāfiẓ Abū Muḥammad al-Dimyāṭī, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Nashw, Shaykh Shaʿbān al-Irbilī, a number of Egyptian scholars, and he was one of the last remaining musnids (authorities with complete isnāds).
He passed away in Rajab (2), 659 AH.
In that same year there also died: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ḥāmid ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Artaḥī; al-Mustanṣir Billah (3) Aḥmad, son of al-Ẓāhir; the minister Ṣafī al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Marzūq al-ʿAsqalānī; the professor of the Jawziyya, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh, son of the ḥāfiẓ; Imām Sayf al-Dīn Saʿīd ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Bākharzī; the preacher Jamāl al-Dīn ʿUthmān ibn Makkī ibn ʿUthmān al-Shāriʿī; the lord of Ṣahyūn, Muẓaffar al-Dīn ʿUthmān ibn Minkāwaras, who governed it for a little over thirty years; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr ibn Sayyid al-Nās al-Yaʿmarī; Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad, son of the judge Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Dirbās; Makkī ibn ʿAbd al-Razzaq ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khaṭīb ʿAqrabā; and the king.