Momtazuddin Ahmad was born in 1889 to a Bengali Muslim family of Bhuiyans in the village of Manikpur in Noakhali District, Bengal Presidency.
[2] After finishing primary school, Ahmad moved to Calcutta and became a student at its Alia Madrasa in 1907.
His other teachers included Lutfur Rahman Burdwani, Abdul Haq Haqqani and Fazl-e-Haq Rampuri.
[4] He relocated to the Government Madrasah-e-Alia, Dacca in 1953, six years after the Partition of Bengal.
His fourth son, Moudud Ahmed, served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1988 to 1989.