He was a contemporary of Suyuti, and between the two there were several scholarly challenges, Arabic: 'Khusumat'. The subject of the arguments were focused on al-Qasṭallānī's Shaykh al-Sakhawi, but eventually al-Qasṭallānī went to Suyuti to apologize.Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī al-Dumyāṭī, Muqaddimah Taḥqīq Kitāb al-Itqān fī ‘Ulūm al-Qur’ān li-Suyūṭī, Dār al-Ḥadīth, 1425H
