After serving for a stint as a teacher at Al-Azhar, he worked as an Attorney General for 10 years.

Thereafter, he returned to academia and was appointed Professor of Shariah and Law again at Al-Azhar University.

[1] In April 2013, Al Azhar University's Council of Senior Scholars decided to hold elections to replace Al-Abd after a major food poisoning incident at Al-Azhar University's student hostel.

[4] Al-Abd stated that primary goal of the university protests was to disrupt studying and denied siding with Egyptian government headed by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

[3] Al-Abd also stated the Muslim Brotherhood was an exclusionary group hostile to the sheikh of Al Azhar University, Ahmed el-Tayeb, and solely dedicated to returning to power in Egypt without consideration for dissent.