Syed Ahmad Hashmi was born on 17 January 1932 in
Darbhanga at the house of his maternal grandfather. He was brought up by his brother Syed Muhammad Hashmi, who enrolled him at the Madrasa Dīniya in
Ghazipur, where he received his primary education, where he received his primary education from 1940 to 1948. He received his higher education at the
Madrasa 'Aliya in
Kolkata between 1948 and 1954, and graduated from the
Darul Uloom Deoband in 1955. He was appointed the chairman of the
Delhi Waqf Board in 1977 and served as the general secretary of the
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind from 1973 to 1980. Later in his life, he dissociated from the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, and formed Milli Jamiat Ulama, existence of which remained limited to the paper only. Hashmi died on 4 November 2001 in Delhi. His funeral prayer was led by Abdul Ghafar, the then senior hadith professor of Madrasa Alia, Fatehpuri. ==See also==