[1][2] He resided in Ahmedpore village, two to three miles from the town of Magam in Kashmir.
Later Syed Saleh went to live in the village of Haigam in the Baramulla district in Kashmir.
[3] Rizvi was a prominent scholar of his period, who wrote a Marsiyeh or dirge in Kashmiri[4][5] in the memory of Imam Hussein, the Shiite third Imam who was killed in the Battle of Karbala.
Aqa Syed Ali was educated in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq and was a leading intellectual, an Ayatollah and a renowned jurist, whose son Ayatollah Syed Abul Hassan Rizvi Kashmiri (Abbu Sahab) is credited as having established a well known Shiite Islamic school, Sultanul Madaris, and also helped in establishing the school of Jamia Nazimeyeh, both in Lucknow.
Among his other descendants was the Islamic jurist Ayatullah Syed Ahmed Rizvi Kashmiri (1901-1964), who lived in Srinagar City of Kashmir.