He attended the mekteb, and was educated in the field of making clothes, Kazaz. Later, he continued his education in Madrasa, and in 1775 he became sibijan-mualim in mekteb at Ferhadija mosque.

But in 1763 he leaves this service and become a popular public writer, what would be his main occupation. For this job he rented a small shop. He wrote requests, contracts, personal letters, certificates to unlettered people; he had been writing legacy letters of dead citizens, and etc.

In 1756, in his 25 year of life, he started to write chronicles and the events, mainly in Sarajevo, until 1804/05 when the illness mastered him. He died in 1809. Baseskija was the average educated man, who got that knowledge more with the hard work than the regular education.

As a man from poor family, he hardly fought through life by nourishing his numerous family.

Purpose and the meaning of his work he emphasized in his the words:

“All that is written remain, all that is remembered disappears.”

News and descriptions of the events in the first few years are short, without comments. Later, these descriptions are larger, more picturesque and interesting. However, avoiding prolixity, he tried to speak truthfully about some events.

For fifty years in necrology he wrote in about 4,000 deaths, mostly adult Muslim Bosniaks.