[6] In fiqh, he was a mujtahid and along and with his student Ibn Hajar al-Haytami, represents the foremost authority for fatwa for the entire late Shafi'i school.
Since He was a young child, He has been fervently seeking knowledge and exerting great effort to obtain it.
[9] He studied hadith, fiqh, its legal theory, grammar, linguist, rhetoric, and literature.
Over time, the pupils of sacred wisdom and knowledge of Allah were illuminated by their constant luminosity.
[9] Some of his teachers include; As the leading Shafi'i jurist of his day, he held the highest post of Nazir in 905/1499-1500 under the Mamluk sultan al-Ẓahir Ḳanṣuh where he served as the Grand Mufti of Egypt.
He spent his time learning by instructing, issuing formal legal judgements, writing, and commanding good and prohibiting evil.
People flocked from all over when word of His death spread, their eyes welling with tears and their hearts heavy with sorrow.