A great grandson of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), grandson of Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra) and son of Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad (rh). He completed his MA in Philosophy from the university of Oxford, before becoming an expert in several languages. He served his entire adult life to its very end as a life devotee of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, translating from several languages including work on a number of collections of hadith traditions.