Jafar Masood Hassani Nadwi was born on 13 September 1965 in Takia, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India, into a family with a strong Islamic scholarly background.
[5] Nadwi started his career in 1985 as a teacher of Hadith and Arabic literature at Madrasa Aliah Irfania, a branch of Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow.
His funeral prayer was led by Bilal Abdul Hai Hasani Nadwi, the chancellor of Nadwatul Ulama, and was attended by a large number of people.
[20] Public figures, including Khalid Saifullah Rahmani (President of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board),[21] Akhilesh Yadav (President of the Samajwadi Party), Chandrashekhar Azad (Leader of the Azad Samaj Party), Sajjad Nomani, Akram Nadwi of Oxford University, Syed Ahmed Bukhari (Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Delhi),[20] and Priyanka Gandhi (General Secretary of AICC),[22] offered condolences.
[20] Nadwi started writing at an early age, producing scholarly and literary articles on topics such as literature, Islamic thought, and history, in both Urdu and Arabic.