Among his foremost teachers were:
– Ibrāhīm al-Tanūkhī (d. 800 AH);
– Burhān al-Dīn al-Abnāsi (d. 802 AH);
– Ibn al-Mulaqqin (d. 804 AH);
– Sirāj al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī (d. 805 AH);
– ʿAbd al-Rahīm 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.

Among his most renowned students were:
– Muḥibb al-Dīn Ibn al-Shiḥna (d. 815 AH);
– al-Kamāl Ibn al-Humām (d. 861 AH);
– Ibn Taghrī Birdī (d. 874 AH);
– Qāsim ibn Quṭlūbughā (d. 879 AH);
– Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqaʿī (d. 885 AH);
– Shams al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī (d. 902 AH);
– Zakariyya al-Anṣārī (d. 926 AH);
along with many others.