The son of Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bahadur, Muhammad Said spent his early years in the service of the East India Company, eventually rising to the rank of Deputy Collector for Dudain.

Although his father had been a tyrant during his brief reign, Muhammad Said by contrast proved to be a benevolent and progressive ruler, building irrigation works and establishing courts of law and an advanced legal code.

He was succeeded by his eldest son, Yusef Ali Khan Bahadur.

He appointed Allam Yusuf Ali Khan Mehvi into a famous Kutub Khana.

He invited accomplished calligraphers, illuminators and binders from Kashmir and other parts of India.And prepared a seal with the following Persian inscription: Hast in muhr bar kutub khana Wali-i-Rampur Farzana AH 1268 (1852 A.D) [1]