A great grandson of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad^(as), grandson of Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad^(ra) and son of Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad^(rh). He completed his MA in Philosophy from the university of Oxford, before becoming an expert in several languages. He served his entire adult life – to its very end – as a life devotee of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, translating from several languages including work on a number of collections of hadith traditions.