He was brought to Egypt by his older brother and sold to atabeg Inal Al-Yusufi during the reign of Sultan Barquq.

[3] Later on, he became the Mamluk na'ib of Damascus during the reign of Al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh in 1418–1420, in which he built Khan Jaqmaq.

Afterwards, he became atabeg under Sultan Barsbay, in which he led a campaign to repress the revolt of Beylik of Dulkadir in Anatolia.

He earned Barsbay's trust to become the guardian of his son Al-Aziz Jamal al-Din Yusuf.

In 1438, Sultan Barsbay died and left the throne to his son Yusuf who was only fifteen years old.

The governors of Damascus, Inal Al-Jakmi, and Aleppo, Tagri Barmash, rallied to Yusuf who managed to escape from Cairo.

Jaqmaq sent an army led by Akabgha Al-Tamrazi to fight the rebellious emirs who were eventually defeated and captured.

A second failure in 1442, encouraged him to build a fleet capable of leading a real assault against Rhodes.

[8] In 1453, Jaqmaq, aged eighty years, died after appointing his son Fakhr al-Din Uthman, who was named after the Ottomans, as successor.

[17] Jaqmaq divorced her in September–October 1438,[17] acting on rumors that she had cursed his favorite slave girl Surbay and thus caused her death a month before.

[18] She then moved from al-Qa'a al-Kubra to Qa'at al-Barbariyya before she left the citadel for her brother's house.

[17] Her mother was Fatima Umm Khawand[21] (died 26 April 1487[22]), the daughter of Qani Bay,[23] son of Sultan Barquq's sister.

[17] She was the daughter of Dulkadirid ruler, Nasireddin Mehmed Bey,[7] and had been previously married to Janibek as-Sufi.

[29] His son Sultan al-Mansur Fakhr al-Din Uthman was born of a Greek concubine[29] named Khawand Zahra.

[29] His son, Muhammad was married to Khadija, daughter of Aqtuwah, a Circassian, and a relative of Sultan Barsbay.