[2] He commended his studies under his grandfather Hafiz Mohammad Barkatullah and got his education in the Delhi College under professor Ramchundra, who was a distinct mathematical teacher.

[3] He started his service as a scholar at the Delhi College and continued to serve in the education department until he was 55.

[6] In 1872 he was appointed professor of vernacular literature and science at the Muir Central College in Allahabad.

After his retirement he spent some time in Aligarh working for the literary movement of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and his friend Maulvi Samiullah.

[1] He was an early supporter of the Aligarh Movement and translated works for Scientific Society along with his contemporaries Maulvi Nazir Ahmad and Altaf Hussain Hali.