Abul Muhasin Muhammad Sajjad (1880 – 23 November 1940) was an Indian Islamic scholar who was one of the most influential ulemas of the 20th century.
[4][5] Muhammad Sajjad was born in the Panhessa village in the Nalanda district of the Bihar Province in Colonial India.
The shrine's current Sajjada Nashin (hereditary administrator) is the saint's grandson Pir Syed Shah Mohammad Ziauddin (born 1953).
[3] Sajjad authored the Fatwa Tark-e-Mawalat, the religious edict on boycotting the British goods, on 8 September 1920.
[1] He would earlier serve as the working general secretary in absence of Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi.