The noble Quran before he reached the age of ten, and he devoted himself to the study of religious sciences.

At the hands of his teacher, Sheikh Ahmed bin Adiy Al-Azhari, a student of our master Sheikh Ahmed Al-Dardir, may God have mercy on him, where he spent thirty-three years in his company. He returned to his homeland in Sudan, and it was to him that the spread of knowledge in those regions was attributed. Sheikh Ahmed bin Adiy was a vast ocean of all sciences, both rational and transmitted, possessing deep knowledge and firm footing in jurisprudence.

Sheikh Ahmed Al-Amin was his teacher until he obtained an abundant share of knowledge, and success and intelligence appeared in him. His teacher nicknamed him "Al-Basir" (the insightful), the opposite of "Al-Darrir" (the blind).

When Jawhar Pasha, the Governor-General of Sudan, appeared, he raised the status of Sheikh Ahmed Al-Amin and appointed him as the Mufti of Sudan. He used to say, "No fatwa should be issued in Sudan without Amin," due to his knowledge of his virtue and the abundance of his knowledge in the Maliki school of thought.

When the heresy of Al-Mahdi appeared, he was the first to deny it. He wrote a treatise filled with legal evidence on the falsehood of what Al-Mahdi claimed, and he supported it with the affirmation of the Imamate of our master, the Commander of the Faithful, Sultan Abd al-Majid Khan II, and the affirmation of the vicegerency of the Caliph. The Mahdi was defeated in Khartoum, and he rebelled against the Imam, rejecting the legal evidence that indicated his firm footing in the pure Sharia. The mention of this treatise and other treatises by scholars written in response to Al-Mahdi will be discussed elsewhere.

Al-Mahdi intensely hated Sheikh Ahmed Al-Amin, even referring to him as "the blind of insight whom God has led astray with knowledge, and has sealed his hearing and placed a veil over his sight."

Numerous letters were exchanged between the Sheikh and Al-Mahdi, in which the Sheikh gave him sincere advice.