In 1867, he went to Tehran with other student masters such as Mr Wise (Madras), Mohammad Hakim Qmshhay, Mirza Abolhassan Jelve, Mulla Ali Kenny and Syed Mehdi Najafi Qazvini.
Due to a conflict with Ghavamolmolk (the Persian ruler) he was exiled to Samarra, where he took lessons from Mirza Mohammed Hassan Husseini Shirazi which qualified him to exercise ijtihad.
After Shirazi's death, Estahbanati went to Najaf, where he founded his philosophical field.
His dissertation is a collection of thousands of bits of poetry that explain the sciences, such as jurisprudence and judgements through to poetic language and religion.
[2][3] In 1879, Ayatollah Estahbanati married Larijani, the daughter of Mohammad Hassan.