He was originally from Baḥasnā in the Bilād al-Shām.
His father was known as Ibn al-Miṣrī and his brother’s name was Ḥasan Shāh. They came to Aleppo and then to Cairo after Bahasnā’s destruction by Tīmur in 802.
He became a mamlūk of Qarā Sunqur al-Ẓāhirī and of ʾĪnāl Ḥaṭab; then he became a mamlūk of Taghrī Birdī al-Bashbughawī, of Ṭawkh Baṭṭīkh, of Jaqmaq al-ʾArghūn Shāwī, and of Ṭaṭar, who also acted as his patron when he became al-Ẓāhir Ṭaṭar, as did al-ʾAshraf Barsbāy after him. He was ʾustādh of Kumushbughā, of Yūnus and of a raʾs nawba of his, and he was īnī of Shāhīn (whom he murdered). He was patron of ʿAbd al-Laṭīf alʿAjamī.
He was ʾamīr 010 (824-?), ʾamīr 040 (825-7), and ʾamīr 100 (827-?) in Egypt.
He was one of the jamdārs of Taghrī Birdī al-Bashbughāwī, one of the dawādārs of Ṭawkh Baṭṭīkh, and one of the raʾs nawbas and then of the dawādārs of Jaqmaq al-ʾArghūn Shāwī.
He was nāʾib qalʿa (825-7), nāʾib ghayba (836) and ʾamīr ʾākhūr kabīr (837-?) in Egypt.
He was nāʾib of Aleppo (839-42).
He belonged to the turkumān.