After his mother's death in 1850, when he was one year old, he was adopted by another of his father's consorts, Neverser Hanim, who had no children of her own.

[9] She died on 20 April 1909 in the Dolmabahçe Palace, and was buried in Yavuz Selim Mosque.

During his reign, he had tightened the security ring around the Çırağan Palace, where Murad V and his family were confined.

Access to the palace was so severely curtailed that visitors were practically limited to the princes, such as Burhaneddin and Mehmed Reşad.

[14] Burhaneddin died of tuberculosis[13] at the age of twenty-seven on 4 November 1876,[3] and was buried in the mausoleum of his father in Yavuz Selim Mosque, Istanbul.