Syed Mehboob Rizwi was born in 1911 in a Rizwi Sayyid family in Deoband.[3] He studied Islamic sciences at the Madrasa Manba-ul-Ulum Gulaothi and Darul Uloom Deoband.[3]
Rizwi served different educational and research departments of the Darul Uloom Deoband from 1933 until he died.[3] He was also office in-charge of seminary's record room.[4]
Rizwi wrote for different journals and newspapers including, Weekly Al-Jamiat, Monthly Al-Burhan, Monthly Molvi and Monthly Deen-o-Dunya of Delhi, Monthly Ma'arif, Azamgarh, Monthly Haadi, Deoband, Monthly Shams al-Mashayikh, Bhopal, Monthly Shams-ul-Islam, Amritsar, and Bi-monthly Asia, Lahore. He also wrote for the Darul Uloom, the monthly journal of Darul Uloom Deoband.[5]
^ abcdNayab Hasan Qasmi. Darul Uloom Deoband ka Sahāfati Manzarnāma (in Urdu) (2013 ed.). p. 167.
^Asiatic Society of Pakistan (1959). "Sayyid Mahbub Rizwi". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Pakistan. 4. Pakistan: Asiatic Society of Pakistan: 81. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
^Nayab Hasan Qasmi. Darul Uloom Deoband ka Sahāfati Manzarnāma (in Urdu) (2013 ed.). p. 168.