His Journeys:
He travelled to many lands, all of them in pursuit of knowledge and the verification of its questions. Among the places where he stayed were:

1 – The Two Sacred Sanctuaries. He resided for a time in Mecca, performed the tarāwīḥ prayers in the Sacred Mosque in the year 785 AH, and studied Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī there under the ḥadith scholar ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Naysābūrī, later known as al-Makkī. He returned to Mecca repeatedly for Ḥajj and ʿUmrah.

2 – Damascus, where he met some of the pupils of the Syrian historian Ibn ʿAsākir and studied under Ibn al-Mulaqqin and al-Bulqīnī.

3 – Jerusalem and many other towns of Palestine—such as Nablus, Hebron, Ramla, and Gaza—where he met the scholars and benefited from them.

4 – Ṣanʿāʾ and several other cities of Yemen, where he read before their scholars and gained knowledge from them.

All of this was undertaken solely to acquire learning and to sit with the foremost teachers of his time.

His Offices:
Sultan al-Muʾayyad first appointed him deputy judge in place of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī. In 827 AH he was then offered the chief judgeship of Egypt; he accepted, only to regret it. A year later he resigned, but the sultan pressed him to resume the post. Seeing the matter as incumbent upon him, he accepted; the people rejoiced greatly. His jurisdiction was soon enlarged to include the Syrian provinces up to, and just before, 833 AH. Because of continual unrest, factionalism, and personal agendas, he would sometimes hold the bench and at other times step down. Altogether, his years in the judiciary came to twenty-one, and the office of chief judge eventually devolved upon him. His final term ended on the eighth of Rabīʿ al-Thānī 852 AH.

He also held other positions, among them:
– delivering the Friday sermon in al-Azhar Mosque.