Now let us start with a description of him, before we begin with our report on what happened to him during his sultanate.
He is of Circassian origin, and was imported by amir ʾĪnāl Ḍaḍaʿ from the Circassian domains to the Egyptian domains, among a number of mamluks.
He was bought by al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Shaykh, before the year 820. He was then manumitted by him, made a sultani mamluk, and lodged in the Qalʿa, in the Ṭabaqat al-Rafraf.
He then became a khāṣṣakī, after the death of his ʾustādh, and remained so until he became one of the ʾaʿyān of the khāṣṣakīya, and he was favored by al-Malik al-ʾAshraf Barsbāy with 1/3 of the village of Ṭaḥūrīya.
Al-Malik al-ʿAzīz Yūsuf, the son of sultan al-Malik al-ʾAshraf Barsbāy, then gave him 1/2 of Banhā al-ʿAsal instead, after ʾAytmish al-Muʾayyadī.