Mirza Jawad Agha Maleki Tabrizi was born in 1857 (1274 AH) in Tabriz, Iran, although the exact date of his birth is unknown.

[2][3] Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi learned the sciences of morphology, syntax, rhetoric and expression, and the basic level of the Islamic seminary courses in Tabriz.

[4] Then he went to Najaf and studied there under the great scholars and masters of that time such as: Some have said that Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi also had permission to narrate and transfer Hadiths from Murtadha al-Ansari.

[9] Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi came to Iran around 1903 (1321 AH) and promoted religious sciences in his hometown Tabriz.

[19] It is known that Ruhollah Khomeini (the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran) was also a student of Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi, but Ali Khamenei (the second and current supreme leader of Iran) quotes Ruhollah Khomeini as saying that he attended only two sessions of Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi 's course and regretted that he could not attend his course any more.