An Islamic scholar, exegete, debater and educationist born in 1915 into a Sayyid family in Charmonai, Backergunge (Barisal). From a madrasa and orphanage he began in his own home in 1932, he built one of southern Bengal's largest Islamic institutional complexes and became the first Pir of Charmonai Darbar Sharif. He belonged to the Hanafi Sunni scholarly tradition (Deoband/Gangohi line). He died in 1977 and was buried at Charmonai, remembered by his followers as 'Dada Huzur'; he was succeeded by his son Sayyid Fazlul Karim.