His book Tarikh-e-Millat is required reading in the syllabus of Darul Uloom Deoband and in madrasas affiliated with it.
[1] Zayn al-Abidin Sajjad Meerthi was born in 1910 in Meerut, United Provinces of British India.
He graduated in Arabic literature from Allahabad University and specialized in ahadith at Darul Uloom Deoband under Anwar Shah Kashmiri and Hussain Ahmad Madani in 1346 AH.
He later joined Nadwatul Musannifeen, a publishing house established by Atiqur Rahman Usmani along with Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi and Hifzur Rehman Seoharwi in Delhi in 1938.
[1] Meerthi joined Jamia Millia Islamia as a professor of History and exegesis at the request of its former Vice Chancellor, Mohammad Mujeeb.