His rival Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha was then appointed (June 1523) instead as grand vizier, so Hain Ahmed Pasha offered Suleiman I. to make him the governor of Egypt Eyalet, which got accepted by Suleiman I.
[3][4] He struck coins with his own face and name in order to legitimize his power and captured Cairo Citadel and the local Ottoman garrisons in January 1524.
[3][2] After surviving an assassination attempt in his bath by two emirs that he had previously sacked, he fled Cairo.
[2][1] His rebellion occasioned a short period of instability in the nascent Egypt Eyalet.
After his death, his rival Pargalı İbrahim Pasha visited Egypt and reformed the provincial military and civil administration.