[1][2] Seemab Akbarabadi, (born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui)[3][4] a descendant of Abu Bakr, the first Caliph of Islam,[5] was born in Imliwale makaan of Kakoo Gali, Nai Mandi, Agra, as the eldest son of Mohammad Hussain Siddiqui, who was himself a Urdu poet, author of several books, a disciple of Hakim Amiruddin Attaar Akbarabadi, and an employee of the Times of India Press, Ajmer.
[citation needed] Seemab never enjoyed a comfortable financial position, yet he always appeared immaculately dressed in a neat sherwani and white wide pajama with a Turkish topi covering his head.
In 1948, he went to Lahore and then to Karachi in an unsuccessful search for a publisher for his monumental work, "Wahi-e-Manzoom", an Urdu translation in verse form of the Quran.
[7] He also wrote short stories, novels, dramas, biographies and critical appraisals in Urdu, Persian and Arabic.
[2][8] Works on Akbarabadi's life and literary contributions include: Among the writers and poets that he influenced were Raaz Chandpuri, Saghar Nizami and Mohsin Bhopali.