Allama Arshad Ul Qadri was born in 1925, in “Sayyidpura”, Balia, Uttar Pradesh, India in the family of Maulana Abdul Latif who was himself a religious scholar. His grandfather Maulana Azeemullah Shah was also scholar of repute. He received his basic and intermediate education under his grandfather and father then to continue his higher education he moved to Al Jamiatul Ashrafia Islamic seminary.