He attended Christ's College at Cambridge University, and was appointed Bar-at-Law from the Inner Temple in London before his return to India in 1894.
Khan was instrumental in establishing students’ voluntary organization, the Anjuman Al-farz or Duty Society.
Its purpose was to collect funds to enable poor students to come to Aligarh and to promote the interest of the college within the Indian Muslim community and the country as a whole.
Although he was persuaded to continue for a further term of three years, he declined the offer due to ill health.
He died on 18 January 1930 and was buried in the ground of the Ahmadi School for the Blind that he had established in Memory of his father.