Muhammad Ayub Qadri was an Urdu scholar, historian, biographer, translator and educator from Pakistan.
[1][2][3] Muhammad Ayub Qadri was born on 28 July 1926 in Aonla, Uttar Pradesh, British India.
He learned Persian from his father, Maulvi Mushitullah Qadri, and Arabic from Hakim Abdul Ghafoor, a well-known scholar and elder in his hometown.
He did BA from then Federal Urdu College (now University) in 1956 and joined Pakistan Historical Society as a Research Officer.
He received his PhD by writing a dissertation on the role of scholars in the evolution of Urdu prose in northern India up to 1857.