Career
According to I.M. Lewis, Emir Haqq "turned the sporadic and disjointed forays of his predecessors into a full-scale war of aggression, and apparently for the first time, couched his call to arms in the form of a religious war against the Abyssinian "infidel"". Haqq ad-Din I was encouraged by Sultan First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Nasir Muhammad of Egypt to attack Ethiopia. According to the Royal Chronicle of Amda Seyon, news of this outrage so angered the Emperor that he immediately rode off to Ifat with only seven other horsemen.
The chronicler claims that once he arrived there, the Emperor slaughtered large numbers of Haqq ad-Din"s men, and when a part of Amda Seyon"s army caught up with them, they sacked the capital of Ifat and hauled away a considerable amount of gold, silver, bronze and lead, as well as considerable garments.
He was later defeated in battle by Emperor Amda Seyon in 1328.