Shafiqur Rehman Nadwi was born on June 9, 1942, to Manzoor Hasan Siddiqui in Sant Pur, Nautan Block, West Champaran District, in the Indian state of Bihar.
[9] Shafiqur Rahman started his teaching career in April 1962 at Madrasa Islah al-Muslimeen Pathar Ki Masjid, Patna, after graduating from Nadwa.
[11] On Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi's order,[14][15] he wrote the book Al-Fiqh Al-Muyassar,[16][17][18] which is a curriculum featured in universities throughout the country and overseas,[1][2][19] including Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama[17][1][20][21] and all of its branches.
[18] His son Tariq Shafiq Nadwi, President of Urdu Department, Islamia College, Gorakhpur, has written an analytical commentary on his five-year activities in the monthly Zikr o Fikr, New Delhi, titled Matā'-e-Zikr-o-Fikr.
The funeral prayer was led by Saeed-ur-Rahman Azmi Nadvi in the premises of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow and he was buried in the Daliganj graveyard.