Abul Mahasin Muhammad Sajjad

Early life and education Muhammad Sajjad was born in the Panhessa village in the Sheikhpura district of the Bihar Province in Colonial India. His father was Hussain Baksh who died when he was only 4 years old.

Sajjad's elder brother was the revered Sufi saint Sufi Ahmad Sajjad who lived until 1948. Sufi Ahmad Sajjad's Mazar is located near a mosque in the village where Urs of the great Sufi Saint is celebrated every year on the 27th day of Muharram. The shrine's current Sajjada Nashin (hereditary administrator) is the saint's grandson Pir Syed Shah Mohammad Ziauddin (born 1953).

Sajjad started studying at Madrasa Islamiya in Bihar, and then studied at Madrasa Subhaniya in Allahabad for about six years. His major teachers include Abdul Kāfi. He graduated in 1323 AH. He opposed the partition of India and the separatist campaign of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He was appointed the general secretary of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind on 13 July 1940. He would earlier serve as the working general secretary in absence of Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi.

Death Sajjad died on 23 November 1940.

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