Among his foremost teachers were:
• Ibrāhīm al-Tanūkhī (d. 800 AH);
• Burhān al-Dīn al-Abnāsī (d. 802 AH);
• Ibn al-Mulaqqin (d. 804 AH);
• Sirāj al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī (d. 805 AH);
• ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿIrāqī (d. 806 AH);
• Nūr al-Dīn al-Haythamī (d. 807 AH);
• Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Fayrūzābādī (d. 817 AH);
• ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿa (d. 819 AH);
and many others.

His most celebrated students included:
• Muḥibb al-Dīn Ibn al-Shiḥna (d. 815 AH);
• al-Kamāl Ibn al-Humām (d. 861 AH);
• Yūsuf Ibn Taghrī Birdī (d. 874 AH);
• Qāsim Ibn Quṭlūbughā (d. 879 AH);
• Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʿī (d. 885 AH);
• Shams al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī (d. 902 AH);
• Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī (d. 926 AH);
along with many others.