Kākōrī* is a pargana town in the Sarkār of Lakhnau. The Shaikh was the most learned of the learned men of his time, abstemious and well versed in the holy law, while in devout piety even the greatest of the Imāms* (Abū Ḥanīfah) was his inferior. For many years he was engaged in teaching and in instructing the people. He had committed the whole of the glorious word (of God) to memory, according to each of the seven methods of reading it. He used also to give instruction in Shāibī.* He reckoned his spiritual succession from Mīr Sayyid Ibrāhīm of Irīj,* (may God sanctify his soul!) who was himself the most learned of the learned men of his time. The Shaikh would never mention the Ṣūfī mysteries in a public assembly, but only in private, to those who had been initiated in their secrets and one of his sayings was “If the mystical profession of the Unity of God* be made in public it turns again solely to him who uttered it, or to the learned men (present).”

He would not listen to singing, and outwardly reprobated it. He left numerous children who attained perfection, all of whom were adorned with the embellishment of rectitude, piety, wisdom, knowledge, and excellence.

The compiler of these historical selections was honoured, in company with the late Muḥammad Ḥusain Khān,* by being permitted to pay his respects to the Shaikh in Lakhnau. It was the blessed month of Ramaẓān, and a certain one brought to the Shaikh a work on logic, asking him to set him a task in that book. The Shaikh said “You should read some book on divinity.”

The Shaikh's death occurred in the year H. 981 (A.D. 1573-4).