Background
Muhammad Yaqub was born in 1833 in pre-Partition India, in the town of Nanauta, part of the Saharanpur district of the modern province of Uttar Pradesh.
Muhammad Yaqub was born in 1833 in pre-Partition India, in the town of Nanauta, part of the Saharanpur district of the modern province of Uttar Pradesh.
Muhammad Yaqub studied most of the Islamic sciences under his father. Muhammad Yaqub began his career working for the British government in the Department of Education. His students include most of the second-generation Islamic scholars such as Shaykh al-Hind Mahmud al-Hasan, Mufti Aziz al-Rahman Uthmani, and Ashraf Ali Thanwi.