[1] He was schooled at the Madrasa Faydh al-Ghuraba in Adari, and then at the Jamia Miftahul Uloom where he studied with Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azmi, Munshi Zahīr-ul-Haq Nishāt Simābi and Abdul Latīf Nomāni.

He then moved to Darul Uloom Mau where he studied the Mishkat with Abdur Rasheed al-Hussayni and the Jalalayn with Qari Riyasat Ali.

[1] He applied for admission to the Darul Uloom Deoband but was unsuccessful and thus went to the Madrasa Shahi for higher studies and graduated in 1942.

[1] He served as the Officer In Charge of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, Uttar Pradesh in Lucknow from 1974 to 1978 and thereafter taught Islamic Sciences at the Madrasa Jamia Islamia in Rewri Talab, Varanasi from 4 February 1978 till he was bedridden due to old age.

"[3] Asīr wrote biographies of the Islamic theologians Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, Imamuddin Punjabi, Rahmatullah Kairanawi, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi and Hussain Ahmed Madani.