He received his tutelage amongst several prominent Hanbali figures, including Ibn Taymiyyah.
Ibn Muflih married the daughter of the Hanbalis Qadi al-Qudat Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mardāwī (700-769/1300-1367) and had seven children from this marriage, five boys and two girls.
[1] After a life of writing and teaching in Damascus in three Hanbali madrasas, al-D̲j̲awziyya, al-Ṣāḥibiyya and al-ʿUmariyya, he died in 763/1362.
His extant works have preserved much that has been lost of earlier Ḥanbali works, notably his Ādāb s̲h̲arʿīyya (3 volumes, Cairo 1348/1930), which contains many excerpts of Kitāb al-Funūn of Ibn Aqil.
Kitāb al-Furūʿ (3 volumes, 1339/1921) is one of the most important Hanbalī works for the establishment of the true legal doctrine of Ahmad ibn Hanbal.