Khan Bahadur Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdul Ghafūr (11 February 1834 - 14 June 1889), better known by his pen name Nassakh (Urdu: نساخ), was a British Indian officer, writer, literary critic and collector.
[2] He organised mushaira in places where he worked; inspiring young Urdu poets in Bengal.
[1] Abdul Ghafur was born on 11 February 1834 to the Qadi family of Rajapur in Faridpur district.
His father, Qazi Faqir Muhammad, was a lawyer at the Calcutta civil court and a Persian author best known for his Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh (جامع التواريخ Compendium of Chronicles), a history book published in 1836.
He translated Persian poet Fariduddin Attar's Pand Name into Urdu under the title of Chashma-e-Faez in 1874.