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Dal Cairo si trasferì a insegnare a [[Damasco]], dove fu nominato dall'[[Emiro]] ''muḥtaṣib'' (controllore statale della legalità [[Shari'a|sciaraitica]] dei traffici e dei commerci in un [[suq]]) <ref>Al-'Ayni, ''ʿIqd al-Jumān fī taʾrīkh ahl al-zamán'', ed. ʿAbd al-Rāziq al-Ṭantāwī al-Qarmūt (Il Cairo, 1985)</ref> e tornò al Cairo solo qualche tempo dopo il 1398.
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OnceTornato back inal Cairo, al-'AyniʿAynī strengthenedrafforzò hisil socialproprio andruolo politicalsociale positione byla associatingpropria withposizione severalpolitica amirsavvicinandosi a diversi ''Amīr'', makingadempiendo theal ''[[Hajj]]'' withstando thecon amirl'Emiro Tamarbughā al-Mashtūb.<ref>Ibn Taghrībirdī, ''al-Manhal al-Sāfi al-MuhammadMuḥammad fī SiratSīrat al-Malik al-Mu'ayyadMuʾayyad'', ed. Muhammad Muhammad Amin (Cairo, 1984), 1:417.</ref> HeEbbe alsoanche hadil thepatronato patronagedel ofpotente the powerful amir''Amīr'' Jakm min 'AwdʿAwd, whoche wasera ''dawadār'' (literallylett. "inkstand-holdertitolare del [[calamaio]]": a secretaryun orsegretario confidentialconsigliere advisorpersonale) todel the[[Sultano]] [[SultanMamelucchi|mamelucco]] [[Barquq|Barqūq]].<ref>Ibn Taghrībirdī, ''al-Manhal al-Sāfi'', 4:313-22.</ref><!-- After the death of Barqūq, al-'Ayni became the ''muhtasib'' of Cairo, displacing the scholar [[al-Maqrizi|al-Maqrīzī]]. According to al-Maqrīzī (an interested party) it was Jakm who obtained the post for al-'Ayni;<ref>al-Maqrīzī, ''Kitāb al-Sulúk li Ma'rijat Duwal al-Mulúk'', ed. Sa'id Āshūr (Cairo, 1973), 3:2:740.</ref> however, the historian Ibn Taghribīrdī states that it was a cooperative effort by Jakm and two other amirs, Qalamtāy al-'Uthmānī and Taghribīrdī al-Qurdamī.<ref name=autogenerated1>Ibn Taghribīrdī, ''al-Nujūm'', 15:287.</ref> In any case, this was the beginning of a lifelong feud between the two ''[[ulema|'ulama']]'' : "From that day on, there was hostility between the two men until they both died."<ref name=autogenerated1 />
Al-'Ayni and al-Maqrīzī succeeded each other as ''muhtasib'' of Cairo several times over the next few years, probably a reflection of the power struggle between Jakm min 'Awd and al-Maqrīzī's patron, Yashbak al-Sha'bānī.<ref>Broadbridge, pp.89–90, "The ''Muhtasib'' Incident".</ref> Neither held the post for very long. In the reign of [[al-Nasir Faraj]], Barqūq's son and successor, al-'Ayni was appointed to the "lucrative and prestigious"<ref>Broadbridge, p.91.</ref> post of ''nāzir al-ahbas'' (overseer of pious endowments.) He would be dismissed from and reappointed to this post several times, finally securing it for good in the reign of the Sultan Mu'ayyad Shaykh and keeping it until he was ninety-one.<ref>Ibn Taghribīrdī, ''History of Egypt 1382–1467'', trans. William Popper, University of California (Berkeley, 1958.)</ref>
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